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My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
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My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
Can make the fool of; that they made before:
In fact I must not lead the life I did do.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a
saint.
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a
saint.
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
