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A live dog is better than a dead lion.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
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My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
Can make the fool of; that they made before:
In fact I must not lead the life I did do.
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
May everything he treads upon become a rose!
May everything he treads upon become a rose!
