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A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
Favour will as surely perish as life.
Favour will as surely perish as life.
A house and a woman sute excellently.
A house and a woman sute excellently.
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
