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What's gone, and what's past help,
Should be past grieve.
What's gone, and what's past help,
Should be past grieve.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
[The wolf must die in his own skin.]
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
[The wolf must die in his own skin.]
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
It is difficult to fly without wings.
It is difficult to fly without wings.
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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.]
