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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.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There musicke with her read more
While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There musicke with her silver sound,
Is wont with spede to send redresse.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera read more
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with
delight.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with
delight.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
