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Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long read more
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long attack us.
The first dish pleaseth all.
The first dish pleaseth all.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.
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 who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
The shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.
The shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.
