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No day so clear but hath dark clouds.
No day so clear but hath dark clouds.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
Give place to your superiors.
Give place to your superiors.
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought
to be interposed.
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought
to be interposed.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.
And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.
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.