Seventeenth-century English Proverb

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“While the doctors consult, the patient dies.”
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“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
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Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)

“As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.”
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