Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?

I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.

I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.

What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
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As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love there is no lack," thus I begin;
"Fair words make fools," replieth he again;
"Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;
"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";
"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;
"A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";
"Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";
"Light burden's heavy, if far borne";
Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";
"Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.
And having thus awhile each other thwarted
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.

Still harping on my daughter.

Still harping on my daughter.

Assaile who will, the valiant attends.

Assaile who will, the valiant attends.

Nature abhors a vacuum.
[Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]

Nature abhors a vacuum.
[Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]