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Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a read more
That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
The doctors gave her over--to an ass.
The doctors gave her over--to an ass.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]