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This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.
Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.
Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
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.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
It adds to the glory both of soule and body.
It adds to the glory both of soule and body.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.