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A fickle and capricious woman.
A fickle and capricious woman.
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes
us.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes
us.
The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
[The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]
The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
[The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not
discretion.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not
discretion.
Let all live as they would die.
Let all live as they would die.
Of two evils I have chose the least.
Of two evils I have chose the least.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
