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Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows,
Cupid averse rejects divided vows.
Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows,
Cupid averse rejects divided vows.
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
We make allowance for necessity.
We make allowance for necessity.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
