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With winsome cruelty she refuses.
With winsome cruelty she refuses.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
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.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera read more
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
