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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

George Herbert

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Choak Myself Upbraided
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Absent Dead House
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Brest Side Squrres
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Discontened Easie Men
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Eat Greedy Horse
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Money Mony Women
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Fair Ready Window
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Another Feet Half Straw

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

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