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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
I tell the tale as it was told to me.
I tell the tale as it was told to me.
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.
Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.
