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Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
Charity sees the need not the cause.
Charity sees the need not the cause.
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
'Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.
'Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.