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Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
