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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Buy at a faire, but sell at home.
Buy at a faire, but sell at home.
But why pursue the common tale?
Or wherefore show how knights prevail,
When ladies dare to hear?
But why pursue the common tale?
Or wherefore show how knights prevail,
When ladies dare to hear?
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he
might take the current sideways.
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he
might take the current sideways.
He is not poor who has a competency.
He is not poor who has a competency.
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.
