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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!
To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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.
He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.
He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.
Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
