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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to
your mind.
Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to
your mind.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
Each must drain
His share of pleasure, share of pain.
Each must drain
His share of pleasure, share of pain.
