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It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil read more
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.
And prate and preach about what others prove,
As if the world and they were hand and glove.
And prate and preach about what others prove,
As if the world and they were hand and glove.
Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
My tongue read more
Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:
How in my words somever she be shent,
To give them seals never, my soul, consent!
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure;
His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.
Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure;
His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.
O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care
Is to seem everything but what they are.
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care
Is to seem everything but what they are.