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Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
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At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's children feel the matin spring
Of life reviving, with reviving day.
It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.
It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill,
To turn the current of a woman's will.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill,
To turn the current of a woman's will.
