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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
To a great night, a great Lanthorne.
To a great night, a great Lanthorne.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
The body is more drest then the soule.
The body is more drest then the soule.
Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,
And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform.
Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,
And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
