When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.

When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.

Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.

That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni read more

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.]

But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit read more

Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,
On their departure most of all show evil.

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping read more

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson
tingling.