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How can man die better,
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of this fathers
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How can man die better,
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of this fathers
And the temples of his gods?
He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to
our insufficient fortune.
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to
our insufficient fortune.
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health,
perception, and judgment.
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He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health,
perception, and judgment.
[Lat., Quem dii diligunt,
Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]
Look here, he cries (to give him words):
Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!
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Look here, he cries (to give him words):
Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!
Look here, thou vile, predestined sinner,
Doomed to be roasted for a dinner.
