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While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the
Escuriall.
My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the
Escuriall.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
The back-doore robs the house.
The back-doore robs the house.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.