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Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
Beate the dog before the Lyon.
Beate the dog before the Lyon.
Time is the Rider that breakes youth.
Time is the Rider that breakes youth.
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
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.
