Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!

It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.

When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.

And maidens call it--Love in idleness.

And maidens call it--Love in idleness.

The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.

The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.

Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.

He that serves, must serve.

He that serves, must serve.

'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.