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Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
The life of man is a winter way.
The life of man is a winter way.
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you
occupied.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you
occupied.
A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.
A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher,
it goes ill with the pitcher.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher,
it goes ill with the pitcher.
