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Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
New customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
(Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.
New customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
(Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
The Reverend are ever before.
The Reverend are ever before.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he read more
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
