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We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.
Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.
 'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
 Away from my embraces:
  And fallen into the dusty crypt
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 'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
 Away from my embraces:
  And fallen into the dusty crypt
   Of darken'd forms and faces. 
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
 Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church 
still.  
 Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church 
still. 
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
Faire language grates not the tongue.
Faire language grates not the tongue.