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Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
No hair so small but hath his shadow.
No hair so small but hath his shadow.
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
Many a smale maketh a grate.
Many a smale maketh a grate.
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
