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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Wine ever paies for his loding.
Wine ever paies for his loding.
