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The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
A pearl may in a toad's head dwell,
And may be found too in an oyster shell.
A pearl may in a toad's head dwell,
And may be found too in an oyster shell.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that?
Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!
Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that?
Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Dearths foreseene come not.
Dearths foreseene come not.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
