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Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
One mouth doth nothing without another.
One mouth doth nothing without another.
The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.
The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at
him.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at
him.
Great men have reaching hands.
Great men have reaching hands.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed
to rich men that are unthankful to God).
They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed
to rich men that are unthankful to God).
What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
