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Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
In chusing a wife, and buying a sword, we ought not to trust
another.
In chusing a wife, and buying a sword, we ought not to trust
another.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of
gold?
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of
gold?
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes.
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes.
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue.
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
He that is once borne, once must dy.