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Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
In robe and crown the king stepped down,
To meet and greet her on her way.
In robe and crown the king stepped down,
To meet and greet her on her way.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
