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Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
He that marries late, marries ill.
He that marries late, marries ill.
Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.
Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.
The silver livery of advised age.
The silver livery of advised age.
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck.
The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the
supporting pillar being removed, the read more
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the
supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should
collapse in ruin.
