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Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that read more
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
[Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]
He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
[Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]
And what love can do, that does love attempt.
And what love can do, that does love attempt.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
