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It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
What mare's nest hast thou found?
What mare's nest hast thou found?
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Power seldome grows old at Court.
Power seldome grows old at Court.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.
There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.