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 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.] 
 I saw a flie within a beade
 Of amber cleanly buried.  
 I saw a flie within a beade
 Of amber cleanly buried. 
 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." 
 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! 
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
 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. 
 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.] 
 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss 
for the fly that is read more 
 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss 
for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, 
and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 
 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.