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The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the
winter after.
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the
winter after.
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
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As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love there is no lack," thus I begin;
"Fair words make fools," replieth he again;
"Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;
"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";
"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;
"A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";
"Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";
"Light burden's heavy, if far borne";
Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";
"Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.
And having thus awhile each other thwarted
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.
