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A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.
A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.
In a retreat the lame are formost.
In a retreat the lame are formost.
His golden locks time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
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His golden locks time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,
But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
Time stoops to no man's lure.
Time stoops to no man's lure.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.
Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.
