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Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply?
Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply?
Successful villany is called virtue.
Successful villany is called virtue.
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her read more
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a
Chappell hard by.
[No sooner read more
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a
Chappell hard by.
[No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel
hard by.]
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
