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You kick against the goad.
You kick against the goad.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to
lawyers.]
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to
lawyers.]
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
The faulty stands on his guard.
The faulty stands on his guard.
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to read more
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
