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Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by
poverty.
Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by
poverty.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.
Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.
The goate must browse where she is tyed.
The goate must browse where she is tyed.
Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.
Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
