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The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
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Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged,
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged,
and the disease in a great measure removed.
Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again.
Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again.
In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.
In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.
Joking apart, now let us be serious.
Joking apart, now let us be serious.