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If you can't beat them, join them.
If you can't beat them, join them.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory
perusal.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory
perusal.
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the
manner of his forefathers cultivates with his read more
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the
manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his
paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs
down and prostates the mind also.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs
down and prostates the mind also.
