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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Alexander Pope
Home, Body, Fancy
"Epigram: You beat your pate" l. 1 (1732)
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.