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My soul is dark! oh quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear.
My soul is dark! oh quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.
When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.
There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]