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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
All are not merry that dance lightly.
All are not merry that dance lightly.
I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why.
[I wept when I was born and every read more
I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why.
[I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]
