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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
He that sowes trusts in God.
He that sowes trusts in God.
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long read more
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long attack us.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
If folly were griefe every house would weepe.
If folly were griefe every house would weepe.
Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.
Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man, that mocks at it, and sets it light.
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man, that mocks at it, and sets it light.
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far read more
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went,
In that new world that is the old.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
There was not a greater gourmand living.