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Little we heed the tempest drear,
While music, mirth, and social cheer,
Speed on their wings the read more
Little we heed the tempest drear,
While music, mirth, and social cheer,
Speed on their wings the passing year.
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
Idle men are the devil's playfellows.
Idle men are the devil's playfellows.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a read more
That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
