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Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion
the snare laid for her, and the fish read more
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion
the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
The cares that flutter batlike round fretted roofs.
The cares that flutter batlike round fretted roofs.
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
Check the beginning of evil; the remedy is too late when the
disease by delay has increased in strength.
Check the beginning of evil; the remedy is too late when the
disease by delay has increased in strength.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
