A certain Man said, That Wine had two bad Qualities: First, If you mix Water with it, you spoil it. Secondly, If you mix none with it, it will spoil your own self.
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Un certain homme disoit, que le vin avoit deux mauvaises qualitez: la premiere, si l’on met de l’eau dans le Vin, vous le gâtez, la seconde si vous n’y en mettez point, il vous gâte vous même.
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Two riding from Shipton to Burford, and seeing a Miller riding softly before them on his Sacks, resolv’d to abuse him; so one went on one side of him, and t’other on the other side, saying, Miller, now tell us, which art thou, more Knave or Fool? Truly, says he, I don’t know, which I am most, but I guess I am between both.
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Deux Hommes allant à cheval de Shipton à Burford, & voyant un Meunier, qui alloit tout doucement devant eux monté sur ses sacs, ils resolurent de se moquer de lui, & pour cét effet l’un d’euxse mít à un de ses côtez & l’autre de l’autre, Lui demandant s’il ètoit plut fripon que fou? Vrayment, dit-il, Je ne sai ce que je suis le plus, mais je juge que je suis entre deux.
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In Flanders by accident, a Flemish Tyler fell from the Top of a House upon a Spaniard and Kill’d him, though by good luck, he escap’d unhurt himself; the next of the Blood, prosecuted his Death with great Violence against the Tyler; and when he was offered Pecuniary Recompence, nothing would serve him but Lex Talionis; Whereupon the Judge said to him, that if he did urge that kind of Sentence, it must be that he should go up to the Top of the same House, and from thence to fall down upon the Tyler, and so to put him to Death the same way he had kill’d his Kinsman.
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