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What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.
The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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?
He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.
He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
Craft against craft makes no living.
Craft against craft makes no living.
