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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
When yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?
When yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
With his own weapon do I stab him.
With his own weapon do I stab him.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
