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Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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?
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated,
even when most on his guard.
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated,
even when most on his guard.
He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials
of impotence.
He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials
of impotence.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
