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There's not a string attuned to mirth,
But has its chord in melancholy.
There's not a string attuned to mirth,
But has its chord in melancholy.
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of read more
Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror.
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
A little lett lets an ill workeman.
A little lett lets an ill workeman.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
