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Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.
One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.
One flower makes no garland.
One flower makes no garland.
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?