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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void
of knowledge, or of the fear of read more
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void
of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
The cares that flutter batlike round fretted roofs.
The cares that flutter batlike round fretted roofs.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
