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When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.
Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey,
and brevity.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey,
and brevity.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.
A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.
