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Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end,
But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?
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The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end,
But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?
Though Fate said, a hero should perish ill light;
So up rose bright Phoebus, and down fell the knight.
He must of necessity fear many whom many fear.
He must of necessity fear many whom many fear.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
