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A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
Our praises are our wages.
Our praises are our wages.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
