Maxioms by George Chapman
To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.
To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
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His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
