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Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.
Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.
A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.
A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
Health without money is halfe an ague.
Health without money is halfe an ague.
By hesitation the opportunity is often lost.
By hesitation the opportunity is often lost.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
