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Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
Let them call it mischief;
Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue.
Let them call it mischief;
Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue.
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he read more
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare
yourself.
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her read more
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.
Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Better do nothing than do ill.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.