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On a hill there growes a flower,
Faire befall the dainty sweete:
By that flower there is a Bower
Where the heavenly Muses meete.

— Nicholas Breton

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England’s Helicon (1600)

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To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.

The Court and Country (1618)

When little children first are brought to schoole
A Horne-booke is a necessarie toole.

I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Put not thy spirit unto too much paine,
In searching secrets farre above thy skill:
And know a halbert from a hedging bill.

The Mothers Blessing (1602)

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