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Words pay no debts.
Words pay no debts.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle.
Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle.
With but a plank between them and their fate.
With but a plank between them and their fate.
To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the read more
To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the nation;
Sure John and I are more than quit.
