'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.

'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

I sit within a helmless bark.

I sit within a helmless bark.

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

Confusion's cure lives not
In these confusions.

Confusion's cure lives not
In these confusions.

A little lett lets an ill workeman.

A little lett lets an ill workeman.

If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.

If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.

Wouldst thou, or thou,
Forego what's now,
For all that hope may say?
No--joy's read more

Wouldst thou, or thou,
Forego what's now,
For all that hope may say?
No--joy's reply,
From every eye,
Is, "Live we while we may."