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"The longer thread of life we spin, The more occasion still to sin." 
Robert Herrick, Noble Numbers, 1647.

Cabuizee & Britt Lari — Any Way You Want It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FRKgLFBNMY

"As ye thynke in yow hert best to do; for it is a comon proverbe, "A man must sumtyme set a candel befor the Devyle;" 
and therefor thow it be not alder most mede and profytabyl, yet of ij. [injuries] harmys the leste is to be take."
John Paston, Letters, Vol. II, #428 Anonymous: A dispute about Fastolf's will, 1461, p. 73. [Item, for howr Lords love.]

Isabela belatedly understands herself fallen under expectations to steal the orb. She twists but cannot wiggle out of it.