Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Good service is a great inchantment.

Good service is a great inchantment.

What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?

What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?

Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.

Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.

We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth.

We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth.

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means read more

The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means
of defence.

In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.

In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.