You kick against the goad.

You kick against the goad.

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).

War should neither be feared nor provoked.

War should neither be feared nor provoked.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

The Queen, who sat
With lips severely placid felt the knot
Climb in her throat, and with read more

The Queen, who sat
With lips severely placid felt the knot
Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen
Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.

All things deteriorate in time.

All things deteriorate in time.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.

[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.

Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.

Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.