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Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
Like summer tempest came her tears:
Sweet my child, I live for thee.
Like summer tempest came her tears:
Sweet my child, I live for thee.
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay,
And taught him when to be reserved or free.
His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay,
And taught him when to be reserved or free.
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
For violent fires soon burn out themselves.
For violent fires soon burn out themselves.
