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Great strokes make not sweete musick.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a
Tartar]
Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a
Tartar]
The eye will have his part.
The eye will have his part.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
The rose is often found near the nettle.
The rose is often found near the nettle.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.