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Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you,
if you will be served neately.
A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you,
if you will be served neately.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
As many servants so many enemies.
As many servants so many enemies.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
[Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
Familiarity breeds contempt.
[Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.
A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.
