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Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
The Smith and his penny both are black.
The Smith and his penny both are black.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
The ire of a despotic king
Rides forth upon destruction's wing.
The ire of a despotic king
Rides forth upon destruction's wing.
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be read more
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
