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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.
Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.
