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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Let none say, I will not drinke water.
Let none say, I will not drinke water.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
God sends cold according to Cloathes.
[God sends cold according to clothes.]
God sends cold according to Cloathes.
[God sends cold according to clothes.]
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter read more
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter of course.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.