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A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
They dance, they revel, and they sing,
Till the rude turrets shake and ring.
They dance, they revel, and they sing,
Till the rude turrets shake and ring.
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.
He who profits by a crime, commits it.
He who profits by a crime, commits it.
A trade is better then service.
A trade is better then service.
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
