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Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Farre shooting never kild bird.
Farre shooting never kild bird.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Most men are bad.
Most men are bad.
Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.
Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
