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- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
- He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
- So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
- In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
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