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If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
When war begins, then hell openeth.
When war begins, then hell openeth.
You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.
You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
