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Modesty should accompany youth.
Modesty should accompany youth.
When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.
When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.
Let all live as they would die.
Let all live as they would die.
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum.
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum.
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.