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Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long read more
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long attack us.
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may read more
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know read more
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
The ire of a despotic king
Rides forth upon destruction's wing.
The ire of a despotic king
Rides forth upon destruction's wing.
Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.
Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.
But we are all men
In our own natures frail.
But we are all men
In our own natures frail.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
