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Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.
That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least
inviting.
That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least
inviting.
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the
people.
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the
people.
Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
