My sister and my sister's child,
Myself and children three,
Will fill the chaise: so you must read more

My sister and my sister's child,
Myself and children three,
Will fill the chaise: so you must ride
On horseback after me.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.

There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

Content is more than a kingdom.

Content is more than a kingdom.

Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more

Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.

Hold their nose to the grindstone.

Hold their nose to the grindstone.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.