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A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
One stroke fells not an oke.
One stroke fells not an oke.
The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.
The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.
So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.
So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea.
[He that will learn to pray, let him read more
He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea.
[He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?