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A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.
Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.