In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.

In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

A Lyons skin is never cheape.

A Lyons skin is never cheape.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.

But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?

But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.

He that lives well sees a farre off.

He that lives well sees a farre off.

Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.

Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.