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They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that?
Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!
Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that?
Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
God keep me from false friends!
God keep me from false friends!
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."
Princes are venison in Heaven.
Princes are venison in Heaven.
He that feares death lives not.
He that feares death lives not.
