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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.
A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.
This is the reward of my folly.
This is the reward of my folly.
A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.
Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
