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I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu!
You've play'd with me, now play with others too.
I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu!
You've play'd with me, now play with others too.
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay read more
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,
And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
Love and dignity do not dwell together.
Love and dignity do not dwell together.
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.
Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
