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 'Tis meet
 That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
  For who so firm that cannot be read more 
 'Tis meet
 That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? 
 Come, we burn daylight, ho!
 Nay, that's not so.
  I mean, sir, in delay
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 Come, we burn daylight, ho!
 Nay, that's not so.
  I mean, sir, in delay
   We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. 
Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.
Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden.
An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
 Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they 
assume anger, and take courage from the very crime read more 
 Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they 
assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.