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The bee goes out, and honey home d… And some who seek that honey find… Now would’st thou have the honey,… From stinging, in the first place… Comparison.
The mole’s a creature very smooth… She digs i’ th’ dirt, but 'twill n… So’s he who counts this world his… Yet nothing gets but’s labour for… Earth’s the mole’s element, she ca…
Two sacraments I do believe there… Baptism and the Supper of the Lor… Both mysteries divine, which do to… By God’s appointment, benefit aff… But shall they be my God, or shal…
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den (the gaol), and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. ...
This pretty bird, O! how she flie… But could she do so if she had not… Her wings bespeak my faith, her so… When I believe and sing my doubti…
esides what I said of the Four La… And of the weal and woe that from… An after-word still runneth in my… Which I shall here expose unto th… That may it blow into that very ha…
Must we unto the pismire go to sch… To learn of her in summer to provi… For winter next ensuing. Man’s a… Or silly ants would not be made hi… But, sluggard, is it not a shame f…
Wouldst thou be very upright and s… Wouldst thou be that within thou d… Or seem to be in outward exercise Before the most devout, and godly… Yea, art thou thus when no eye dot…
Sinner. What black, what ugly crawling thi… Spider. I am a spider—————— Sinner.
What is the vine, more than anothe… Nay most, than it, more tall, more… What workman thence will take a be… To make ought which may be delight… Its excellency in its fruit doth l…
Thy price one penny is in time of… In famine doubled, ’tis from one t… Yea, no man knows what price on th… When there is but one penny loaf t… Comparison.
This flint, time out of mind, has… Where crystal streams make their c… Yet it abides a flint as much as ’… Before it touched the water, or ca… Its hard obdurateness is not abate…
This watch my father did on me bes… A golden one it is, but 'twill not… Unless it be at an uncertainty: But as good none as one to tell a… When ’tis high day my hand will st…
When I do this begin to apprehend… My heart, my soul, and mind, begin… To God-ward, and sincerely for to… His son, his ways, his people, and… With brokenness of spirit after hi…
Behold, how eager this our little… Is for a butterfly, as if all joy, All profits, honours, yea, and las… Were wrapped up in her, or the ric… Found in her would be bundled up t…