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Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
He that goes softly goes safely.
He that goes softly goes safely.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne
Carpenters (to make them crutches).
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne
Carpenters (to make them crutches).
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal
in every food which offers.
The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal
in every food which offers.