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Losse in delayes.
Shun delaies, they breed remorse:
Take thy time while time doth serue thee,
Creeping Snailes haue weakest force;
Flie their fault least thou repent thee:
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Lingring labours come to nought.
Take thy time while time doth serue thee,
Creeping Snailes haue weakest force;
Flie their fault least thou repent thee:
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Lingring labours come to nought.
Hoise vp saile, while gale doth last;
Tide and wind stay no mans pleasure:
Seeke not time, when time is past,
Sober speede is wisedomes leasure:
After wits are dearely bought,
Let thy forewit guide thy thought.
Tide and wind stay no mans pleasure:
Seeke not time, when time is past,
Sober speede is wisedomes leasure:
After wits are dearely bought,
Let thy forewit guide thy thought.
Time weares all his lockes before,
Take thou hold vpon his fore head,
When he flies he turnes no more,
And behind his scalpe is naked,
Workes aiournd haue many stayes,
Long demurres breede new delaies.
Take thou hold vpon his fore head,
When he flies he turnes no more,
And behind his scalpe is naked,
Workes aiournd haue many stayes,
Long demurres breede new delaies.
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Seeke thy salue while sore is greene,
Festred wounds aske deeper launcing;
After cures are seeldome seene,
Often sought scarce euer chauncing,
Time and place giue best aduise,
Out of season out of prise.
Festred wounds aske deeper launcing;
After cures are seeldome seene,
Often sought scarce euer chauncing,
Time and place giue best aduise,
Out of season out of prise.
Crush the Serpent in the head,
Breake ill egges ere they be hatched:
Kill bad Chickins in the tread,
Fligge, they hardly can be catched.
In the rysing, stifle ill,
Least it grow against thy will.
Breake ill egges ere they be hatched:
Kill bad Chickins in the tread,
Fligge, they hardly can be catched.
In the rysing, stifle ill,
Least it grow against thy will.
Drops doe pierce the stubborne flint,
Not by force but often falling:
Custome kils with feeble dint,
More by vse then strength preuailing.
Single sandes haue little waight,
Many make a drowning fraight.
Not by force but often falling:
Custome kils with feeble dint,
More by vse then strength preuailing.
Single sandes haue little waight,
Many make a drowning fraight.
Tender twigges are bent with ease,
Aged trees doe breake with bending:
Young desires make little prease,
Grought doth make them past amending.
Happie man that soone can nocke,
Bable babes against the rocke.
Aged trees doe breake with bending:
Young desires make little prease,
Grought doth make them past amending.
Happie man that soone can nocke,
Bable babes against the rocke.
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