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By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
I saw young Harry with his visor up.
I saw young Harry with his visor up.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
Too much of anything is bad.
Too much of anything is bad.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.