My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
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My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
Can make the fool of; that they made before:
In fact I must not lead the life I did do.

You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!

You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!

Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.

This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.

The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
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The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means
of defence.

Which of these two is the greater fool?

Which of these two is the greater fool?

It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back.

It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back.

None saies his Garner is full.

None saies his Garner is full.