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Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.
Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you,
my lord fool, out of read more
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you,
my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower,
safety.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."
