. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, NEWES FKOM ANY WHENCE. OR, OLD TRUTH, UNDER A SUPPOSALL OF NOVELTIE. Occasioned by divers Essaies, and private passages of Wit, betweene sundrie Gentlemen upon that subject. Newes from Court. |T is thought heere that there are asgreat miseries beyond happinesse, asa this side it, as being in love. Thattruth is every mans by time makes every thing aged, and yet it selfewas never hut a minute old. That, next sleep, thegreatest devourer of time is businesse : the greateststretcher of it, passion: the truest
. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, NEWES FKOM ANY WHENCE. OR, OLD TRUTH, UNDER A SUPPOSALL OF NOVELTIE. Occasioned by divers Essaies, and private passages of Wit, betweene sundrie Gentlemen upon that subject. Newes from Court. |T is thought heere that there are asgreat miseries beyond happinesse, asa this side it, as being in love. Thattruth is every mans by time makes every thing aged, and yet it selfewas never hut a minute old. That, next sleep, thegreatest devourer of time is businesse : the greateststretcher of it, passion: the truest measure of it,contemplation. To be saved, alvvayes is the bestplot: and vertue alwayes cleares her way as shegoes. Vice is ever behind-hand with it selfe. Thatwit and a woman are two fraile things, and both the
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