A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

No man is born without faults.

No man is born without faults.

Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

The honied tongue hath its poison.

The honied tongue hath its poison.

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.

And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
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Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
To step aside is human.

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.