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Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.
Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
Confusion's cure lives not
In these confusions.
Confusion's cure lives not
In these confusions.
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.