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Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.
Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
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.
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
