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The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!
Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!
No one should be judge in his own cause.
No one should be judge in his own cause.
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that read more
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the
matter.
Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the
matter.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
