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“Master Shelton, ye are troublesome,” replied the earl, severely. “It is an evil way to prosper in this world".

He hath been gallows-ripe this score of years.

Here we are in good hands; we shall be justly tried, and, some time this evening, decently hanged on the same tree.

...his bald head was seen to be rosy with emotion.

To the eye of a modern it would have looked like the sack of a city; to the eye of a contemporary it was like any other rich and noble household at a festive season.

As the world goes in this poor realm of England, he that rides softliest rides surest.

There cometh never any rising, Bennet, from below--so all judicious chroniclers concord in their opinion; but rebellion travelleth ever downward from above; and when Dick, Tom, and Harry take them to their bills, look ever narrowly to see what lord is profited thereby.

Care killed the cat (не работа старит, а забота).

There was some that was feared of Pew, and some that was feared of Flint; but Flint his own self was feared of me.

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