Maxioms by Philip Massinger
Out, you impostors!
Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick read more
Out, you impostors!
Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!
It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,
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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!
It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,
It ravishes all senses.
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
