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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Care, mad to see a man sae happy,
E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
Care, mad to see a man sae happy,
E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether
escaped.
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether
escaped.
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.
Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
