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Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.
'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
