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My sister and my sister's child,
Myself and children three,
Will fill the chaise: so you must read more
My sister and my sister's child,
Myself and children three,
Will fill the chaise: so you must ride
On horseback after me.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
What's done cannot be undone.
What's done cannot be undone.
Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
Tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.
Tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
This division of labour will lessen the task.
This division of labour will lessen the task.
The reasons of the poore weigh not.
The reasons of the poore weigh not.
