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Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
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Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror.
He warmes too neere that burnes.
He warmes too neere that burnes.
A snow yeare, a rich yeare.
A snow yeare, a rich yeare.
He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea.
[He that will learn to pray, let him read more
He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea.
[He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]
To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
