Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.

Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.

Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the
winter after.

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the
winter after.

His essences turn the live air sick.

His essences turn the live air sick.

Then fill the bowl--way with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;
For Hope shall brighten days to read more

Then fill the bowl--way with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;
For Hope shall brighten days to come,
And Mem'ry gild the past.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.

A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more

A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).

Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.

Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.