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Music helps not the toothache.

George Herbert

The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
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
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Food Smell Taste
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
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Ears Hearing Little
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Bees Know Spy
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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King Loss Spring
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Age Need Treasurer Youth
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Bread Estate Two Wallet
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Needle Past People Thread
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Credit Eye Touched

Music helps not the toothache.

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