Crossword-Solution: BLABS 5 letters, 47 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Therefore, sir, take my seat; you are Lord Chancellor: dress your behavior According to my carriage; but beware You talk not over much, for twill betray thee: Who prates not much seems wise; his wit few scan; While the tongue blabs tales of the imperfect man.

You have not that last sad excuse of hunger, which drives poor women to the streets, and makes unhappy men act as public blabs and spies.

And when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play, but blabs the secret;--how then? Is the bird flown? O no, the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim; makes them a little wrongheaded in that direction in which they are rightest, and on goes the game again with new whirl, for a generation or two more.

Stay with my people till sundown, but you must keep your own counsel, for they are all listeners and blabs.

And this it is-- Thy daughter Venus, thy proud daughter Venus here, Blabs it abroad, and beareth all the world in hand,[62] She must be thought the only goddess in the world, Exalting and suppressing whom she likes best, Defacing altogether Lady Fortune's grace; Breaking her altars[63] down, dishonouring her name, Whose government thyself, thyself dost know.