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How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of
a farthing sixe pence.
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of
a farthing sixe pence.
Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
Such a Saint, such an offering.
Such a Saint, such an offering.
There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.
There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
