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No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
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.
What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?
What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?
The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.
The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.
Idleness induces caprice.
Idleness induces caprice.
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill dyet was the
mother.
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill dyet was the
mother.
A small heart hath small desires.
A small heart hath small desires.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
