It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

Good is god, but better carries it.

Good is god, but better carries it.

There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. read more

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be
done, but I would fain die a dry death.

Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.

Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.

How fallen, how changed
From him, who, in the happy realms of light,
Clothed with transcendent brightness, read more

How fallen, how changed
From him, who, in the happy realms of light,
Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads, though bright.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.

This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.