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No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
Give me the ocular proof.
Give me the ocular proof.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
A stone in a well is not lost.
A stone in a well is not lost.
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
