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Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether
escaped.
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether
escaped.
With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting
his ground?
With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting
his ground?
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction read more
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the
snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
