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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

George Herbert

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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End Lasts Particular
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Alcohol Drink Glass
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Cow Lost Tail
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Mean Meditation Soul
The way is an ill neighbour.
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Ill Neighbour Way
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Drowned Length Swimmer
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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Mirth Needs Sin
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Men Miserable Pennies
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Foul Horse Stalk
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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Mean Measure Run Year
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lying Perish Trust

Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

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