More knave than fool.

More knave than fool.

The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.

First come, first served.

First come, first served.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else read more

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The accursed hunger for gold.

The accursed hunger for gold.

For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.

For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.

Their silence cries aloud.

Their silence cries aloud.

He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.

He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.