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Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
Our content
Is our best having.
Our content
Is our best having.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
But few prize honour more than money.
But few prize honour more than money.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with
increased violence.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with
increased violence.
