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Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes.
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
Night is the mother of Councels.
Night is the mother of Councels.
