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Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good cloth give.
Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good cloth give.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
