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Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
With no more sign of wisdom than a beard.
With no more sign of wisdom than a beard.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good cloth give.
Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good cloth give.
The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.
The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.
A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
