Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

And quick his colour went and came,
As fear and rage alternate rose.

And quick his colour went and came,
As fear and rage alternate rose.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.

With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting
his ground?

With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting
his ground?

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.