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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
To gaine teacheth how to spend.
To gaine teacheth how to spend.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good read more
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
And still a new to-morrow does come on.
We by to-morrow read more
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
And still a new to-morrow does come on.
We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.