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Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.
Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Life like an empty dream flits by.
Life like an empty dream flits by.
Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.
Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.
We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.
We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
