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Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour
doth me more harm then read more
Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour
doth me more harm then either of them both.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on
other matters.
The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on
other matters.
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.
Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.