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That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
