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Patience is sorrow's salve.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
We are born poets. we become orators.
We are born poets. we become orators.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy
those who are well to do.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy
those who are well to do.
After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!
They that know one another salute a farre off.
They that know one another salute a farre off.
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long read more
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long attack us.
Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.
Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.
