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Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Little losses amaze, great tame.
Little losses amaze, great tame.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.
When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
Though fame is smoke,
Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.
Though fame is smoke,
Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.
The first dish pleaseth all.
The first dish pleaseth all.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, read more
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
