Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.

Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.

What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.

What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.

A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
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And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went,
In that new world that is the old.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

An old dog barks not in vain.

An old dog barks not in vain.