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What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
The sweat of industry would dry and die,
But for the end it works to.
The sweat of industry would dry and die,
But for the end it works to.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
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.
I'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
I'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.