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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a read more
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that read more
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
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.
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
All our pompe the earth covers.
All our pompe the earth covers.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.