Ball Lifted

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“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)

“In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)