English Song Originally

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    The mob has many heads but no brains.
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    My beloved is like a roe or a young hart:
    —Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 9)

    If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)