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When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
It will please though ten times repeated.
It will please though ten times repeated.
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
