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Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or
something better of the same sort, must form read more
Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or
something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every
Englishman's education.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.
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?
Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.
Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.
If the husband once give way
To his wife's capricious sway,
For his breeches he next day
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If the husband once give way
To his wife's capricious sway,
For his breeches he next day
May go to whoop and holloa.
