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Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
Love is not found in the market.
Love is not found in the market.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts
not.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts
not.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
