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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A read more
A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
The present century was growing blind
To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,
Until his late read more
The present century was growing blind
To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,
Until his late life by Archdeacon Coxe.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial
in the shade?
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial
in the shade?
Time stoops to no man's lure.
Time stoops to no man's lure.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour
doth me more harm then read more
Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour
doth me more harm then either of them both.
A mans discontent is his worst evill.
A mans discontent is his worst evill.
What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?
What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?