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Speake not of a dead man at the table.
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.
[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.
In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
