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Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.
Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
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.
The shadow of a mighty name.
The shadow of a mighty name.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
