This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the
turne.

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the
turne.

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.

It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.

It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.

You are judged of by what you possess.

You are judged of by what you possess.

That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

That which never has been, never is, and never will be.