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Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope:
I have hope to live, and am prepared read more
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope:
I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a read more
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a harder task to prove--
By firm resolve to conquer love!
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
None saies his Garner is full.
None saies his Garner is full.
Circumstances alter cases.
Circumstances alter cases.
