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For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.
By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.
He that riseth first, is first drest.
He that riseth first, is first drest.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him read more
As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him to think what kind of bird it is,
That sings so delicately clear, and make
Conjecture of the plumage and the form.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out
at the back.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out
at the back.
Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.
Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
