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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
All keyes hang not on one girdle.
All keyes hang not on one girdle.
