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Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
When you have set yourself a task finish it.
When you have set yourself a task finish it.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
