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As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
Something given that way.
Something given that way.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
The asses' bridge.
[Lat., Pons Asinorum.]
The asses' bridge.
[Lat., Pons Asinorum.]
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
To give importance to trifling matters.
To give importance to trifling matters.
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
