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In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
You cannot know wine by the barrell.
[You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
You cannot know wine by the barrell.
[You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.
Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.
Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them.
Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them.
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
