In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.

The honied tongue hath its poison.

The honied tongue hath its poison.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.

Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes
of others.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes
of others.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his
worst enemy.

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his
worst enemy.