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Stay a little and news will find you.
Stay a little and news will find you.
Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.
Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.
Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.
Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so read more
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.
All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
