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 Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
 [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]  
 Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
 [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] 
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
 It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree 
of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a read more 
 It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree 
of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! 
 We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in 
amber, a more than royal tomb.  
 We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in 
amber, a more than royal tomb. 
 Oh! that the memories which survive us here
 Were half so lovely as these wings of thine!
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 Oh! that the memories which survive us here
 Were half so lovely as these wings of thine!
  Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine
   Now thou art gone. 
 A fly sat on the chariot wheel
 And said "what a dust I raise."  
 A fly sat on the chariot wheel
 And said "what a dust I raise." 
 We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in 
amber, more durable than the monument read more 
 We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in 
amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body 
of any king. 
 Baby bye
 Here's a fly,
  Let us watch him, you and I,
   How he read more 
 Baby bye
 Here's a fly,
  Let us watch him, you and I,
   How he crawls
    Up the walls
     Yet he never falls. 
 To a boyling pot flies comes not.
 [To a boiling pot flies come not.]  
 To a boyling pot flies comes not.
 [To a boiling pot flies come not.]