"I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just."
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"Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived."
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"God sends cold according to clothes."
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"To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."
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"Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die."
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"Beauty draws more than oxen."
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"Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick."
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"By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty."
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"It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle."
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"Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table."
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"You cannot know wine by the barrell."
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"The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve."
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"When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin."
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"The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings."
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"The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep."
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"In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie."
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"Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told."
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"The Jews spend at Easter."
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"The smith and his penny both are black."
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"The wolf must die in his own skin."
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