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Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.
Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
Laughter holding both his sides.
Laughter holding both his sides.
In spending lies the advantage.
In spending lies the advantage.
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
