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We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
This is the real secret of all that indignation.
This is the real secret of all that indignation.
It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.
It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
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.
