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Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.
By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.
The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
