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Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
A naughty child is better sick then whole.
A naughty child is better sick then whole.
That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
