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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
The eyes have one language every where.
The eyes have one language every where.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.
And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
