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Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.
Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming
back.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming
back.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.
Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.
Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.
Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.
Weeds are shallow-rooted,
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want read more
Weeds are shallow-rooted,
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
