Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.

Citties are taken by the eares.

Citties are taken by the eares.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.

The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is
entrusted to them.

The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is
entrusted to them.

But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.

But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.

That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.

The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.

The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the
matter.

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the
matter.