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Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
A greater liar than the Parthians.
A greater liar than the Parthians.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
