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How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
The greatest step is that out of doores.
[The greatest step is that out of doors.]
The greatest step is that out of doores.
[The greatest step is that out of doors.]
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
Where your will is ready, your feete are light.
Where your will is ready, your feete are light.
A little lett lets an ill workeman.
A little lett lets an ill workeman.
So obliging that he ne'er obliged.
So obliging that he ne'er obliged.
