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It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
