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You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.
You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.
Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.
He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.
Give me the ocular proof.
Give me the ocular proof.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
