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Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
I'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
I'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.
Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.
The wife is the key of the house.
The wife is the key of the house.