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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
The monarch drank that happy hour
The sweetest, noblest draught of power.
The monarch drank that happy hour
The sweetest, noblest draught of power.
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.