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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
A creature not too bright nor good
For human nature's daily food.
A creature not too bright nor good
For human nature's daily food.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.
