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No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.
To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
