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Seeming genial, venial fault.
Seeming genial, venial fault.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her read more
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes
To a lodging ready furnished.
He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes
To a lodging ready furnished.
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.