There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by read more

There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle.

Idle men are the devil's playfellows.

Idle men are the devil's playfellows.

Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?

Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.

Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

What one day gives us, another takes away from us.

What one day gives us, another takes away from us.

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.