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 Better the feet slip then the tongue.
 [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]  
 Better the feet slip then the tongue.
 [Better the feet slip than the tongue.] 
I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
 Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out 
his master's undoing.  
 Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out 
his master's undoing. 
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
 All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits,
 Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;
  And now the happy read more 
 All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits,
 Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;
  And now the happy season once more fits
   That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;
    For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong
     When it is barred the aidance of the tongue. 
 Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup,
 That runs for ages without winding up?  
 Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup,
 That runs for ages without winding up? 
 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which 
I have made touching the king: read more 
 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which 
I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready 
writer. 
 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under 
his tongue;
 Though he spare it, read more 
 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under 
his tongue;
 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within 
his mouth:
  Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps 
within him. 
 Tongues I'll hang on every tree
 That shall civil sayings show. . . .  
 Tongues I'll hang on every tree
 That shall civil sayings show. . . .