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.

Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]

Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]

The point is plain as a pike staff.

The point is plain as a pike staff.

'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.

Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

Nothing is achieved without toil.

Nothing is achieved without toil.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage
money.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage
money.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.