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Favour will as surely perish as life.
Favour will as surely perish as life.
Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife read more
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise
abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.
Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.
