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Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
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But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.
A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.
A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
