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He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his
love of possessing wealth.
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his
love of possessing wealth.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
