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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

George Herbert

He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Pay People Surety
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Sea Settle
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Sky Success
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Medical Physician Thank
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ask Book Sounsell
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Fasten Gaine People
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose
Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Die Know Live People
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERT

Come Hen Scrape
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
GEORGE HERBERT

Body Pain Wine
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERT

Night Wisdom Wise
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Brest Side Squrres
The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERT

House Key Wife
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Drink Frog Gossip Talk
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dead Give Restore
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Encounter Goeth Hath

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