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I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
Take the goods the gods provide thee.
Take the goods the gods provide thee.
Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Of joys departed
Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
Of joys departed
Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Look here, he cries (to give him words):
Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!
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Look here, he cries (to give him words):
Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!
Look here, thou vile, predestined sinner,
Doomed to be roasted for a dinner.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.