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Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of the multitude may be.
[Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse:
Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.]
At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
[It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
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The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
[It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
Suggon l'istesso umore.]
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
How God ever brings like to like.
How God ever brings like to like.
