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Prayers and provender hinder no journey.
Prayers and provender hinder no journey.
We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds read more
We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
[Who is so deaf as he that will not read more
Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
[Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her read more
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Better do nothing than do ill.
You are judged of by what you possess.
You are judged of by what you possess.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.