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Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
Neither cast your pearls before swine.
Neither cast your pearls before swine.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.
Man is to man a god or a wolf.
Man is to man a god or a wolf.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;
His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.
The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;
His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.
