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How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
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At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
Without businesse debauchery.
Without businesse debauchery.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
In poison there is no physic.
In poison there is no physic.
Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi.
Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi.
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
