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I'll have a fling.
I'll have a fling.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.
The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.
The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.
The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.