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Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
Step after step the ladder is ascended.
Step after step the ladder is ascended.
Great paines quickly find ease.
Great paines quickly find ease.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
He who fears his servants is less than a servant.
He who fears his servants is less than a servant.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
