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I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]
I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's read more
For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
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How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck.
The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.
