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Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Good is god, but better carries it.
Good is god, but better carries it.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!
Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.
Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.