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Heap on more wood! the wind is chill!
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep read more
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill!
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep up Christmas merry still.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.
Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy
pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the read more
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy
pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others,
dissatisfied with our own.]
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.
Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.
Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.