Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.

Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.

Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.

Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.

Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.

Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.

From his silence a man's consent is inferred.

From his silence a man's consent is inferred.

She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
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She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.

Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.

Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.

Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

Thursday come, and the week's gone.