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I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
The beades in the Hand, and the Divell in Capuch (or cape of the
cloak).
The beades in the Hand, and the Divell in Capuch (or cape of the
cloak).
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
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.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright
Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.
Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright
Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.
Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
