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Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of
the thing.
Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of
the thing.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.
None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
