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Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
When war begins, then hell openeth.
When war begins, then hell openeth.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
The shadow of a mighty name.
The shadow of a mighty name.
