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A penny for your thought!

— Robert Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589)

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Also in Lyly, Euphues (1579)

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Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

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Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,
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A noble mind disdains to hide his head,
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My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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Men when they lust can many fancies feign.

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