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No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?