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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

George Herbert

No Alchymy to saving.
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Alchymy People Save
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Little Own Patient
It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Betetr Horne Wing
The way is an ill neighbour.
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Ill Neighbour Way
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Brabling Need
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
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Mean Meditation Soul
The offender never pardons.
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Forgiveness Literature Pardon
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Fire Soldier Water
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
An old dog barks not in vain.
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Bark Dog Vain
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
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Money Mony Women
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Folly Jollity Smack
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Bread Estate Two Wallet
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

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

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