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The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
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Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
[Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
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At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.
But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.
But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.