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I have other fish to fry.
I have other fish to fry.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.
Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, read more
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Chill penury repressed their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
Chill penury repressed their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.