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A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
What has not wasting time impaired?
What has not wasting time impaired?
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has
not.
What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has
not.
For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth;
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.
For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth;
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
He that lives most dies most.
He that lives most dies most.