The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.

The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.

It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.

Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.

Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.

. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches
into gold.

Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches
into gold.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

As shines the moon in clouded skies,
She in her poor attire was seen.

As shines the moon in clouded skies,
She in her poor attire was seen.

A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.

A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.