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Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.
Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be
certain to re-appear.
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be
certain to re-appear.
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.
Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
