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A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is
courteous.
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is
courteous.
I tell the tale as it was told to me.
I tell the tale as it was told to me.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
