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Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to
bee buried there.
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to
bee buried there.
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether
escaped.
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether
escaped.
Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.
Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's read more
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's children feel the matin spring
Of life reviving, with reviving day.
He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]
He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]
