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Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And out hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled read more
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And out hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to
our insufficient fortune.
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to
our insufficient fortune.
The whole family is packed into one trap.
The whole family is packed into one trap.
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 cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
