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The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
Ty it well, and let it goe.
Ty it well, and let it goe.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
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?
