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A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
Being on sea saile, being on land settle.
Being on sea saile, being on land settle.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
