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A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.
Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.
If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.
If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and
the trees their leaves.
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and
the trees their leaves.
