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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
Man proposes, and God disposes.
[It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]
Man proposes, and God disposes.
[It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]
An undertaking beset with danger.
An undertaking beset with danger.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
His essences turn the live air sick.
His essences turn the live air sick.
