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We must love, as looking one day to hate.
We must love, as looking one day to hate.
Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.