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I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue;
Though he spare it, read more
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within
his mouth:
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
within him.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
I cannot, nor I will not hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
I cannot, nor I will not hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Tongues I'll hang on every tree
That shall civil sayings show. . . .
Tongues I'll hang on every tree
That shall civil sayings show. . . .
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride
of man: thou shalt keep them read more
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride
of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the
strife of tongues.
You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing.
Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing.