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To make women learned, and foxes tame, hath the same operation, which teacheth them to steale more cuningly, but the possibility is not equall, for when it doth one good, it doth twenty harme.

— James I of England Attributed

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Beware in making your sporters your councellors, and delight not to keepe ordinarily in your companie comedians or balladines.

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I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

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