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What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.
They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.
The back-doore robs the house.
The back-doore robs the house.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
All soils are not fertile.
All soils are not fertile.
