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When one is past, another care we have:
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

— Robert Herrick Hesperides (1648)

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Compare: "One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow", Shakespeare, Hamlet, act iv, sc. 7

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
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If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right;
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