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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you,
my lord fool, out of read more
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you,
my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower,
safety.
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows read more
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
Good & quickly seldome meete.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
