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Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream read more
Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,
From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,
To caper on sunny greens and slopes,
Instead of the dance upon nothing.
Just then, as by the tumult riven,
Poured down at once the lowering heaven.
Just then, as by the tumult riven,
Poured down at once the lowering heaven.
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.
To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.
Thursday come, and the week's gone.
Thursday come, and the week's gone.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Check disease in its approach.
Check disease in its approach.
