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Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.
Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?
Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?
Good workemen are seldome rich.
Good workemen are seldome rich.
That delay is our surest protection which enables us to
deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
That delay is our surest protection which enables us to
deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
Nothing secure unlesse suspected.
Nothing secure unlesse suspected.
Do not expect good from another's death.
Do not expect good from another's death.
Words pay no debts.
Words pay no debts.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
