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Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.


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Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.



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Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.



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So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.



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