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The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
Go to Jericho.
Let them all go to Jericho,
And ne'er be seen againe.
Go to Jericho.
Let them all go to Jericho,
And ne'er be seen againe.
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.