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I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her
mouth is smoother than oil:
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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her
mouth is smoother than oil:
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.
A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.
That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.
He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
