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Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.
Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
