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Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Assaile who will, the valiant attends.
Assaile who will, the valiant attends.
Young in limbs, in judgment old.
Young in limbs, in judgment old.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
