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Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.]
Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.]
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.
Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.
I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
