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The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
To be too busie gets contempt.
To be too busie gets contempt.
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
What has not wasting time impaired?
What has not wasting time impaired?
Advise none to marry or goe to warre.
Advise none to marry or goe to warre.
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because read more
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
