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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that?
Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!
Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that?
Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.
