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No choice amongst stinking fish.
No choice amongst stinking fish.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
A lady with her daughters or her nieces,
Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces.
A lady with her daughters or her nieces,
Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.
A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.
He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial
halter.
He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial
halter.
The great would have none great and the little all little.
The great would have none great and the little all little.
