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And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far read more
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went,
In that new world that is the old.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.
Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.
Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.