So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
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While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out
at the back.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out
at the back.
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.
He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
