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One flower makes no garland.
One flower makes no garland.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes
To a lodging ready furnished.
He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes
To a lodging ready furnished.
To him that will, waies are not wanting.
To him that will, waies are not wanting.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
