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Sop to Cerebus.
If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.
Sop to Cerebus.
If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour
in the cup, when it read more
Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour
in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished.
With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
With his own weapon do I stab him.
With his own weapon do I stab him.
