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Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.