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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.
He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.
Her very silence, and her patience,
Speak to the people, and they pity her.
Her very silence, and her patience,
Speak to the people, and they pity her.
