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 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. 
The Rich knowes not who is his friend.
The Rich knowes not who is his friend.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
It's good tying the sack before it be full.
It's good tying the sack before it be full.
Stay a little and news will find you.
Stay a little and news will find you.
 Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done
 When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.  
 Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done
 When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one. 
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
 The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in 
the contemplation of the past.  
 The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in 
the contemplation of the past.