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Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above
rubies.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above
rubies.
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then
by stars at their nativities.
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then
by stars at their nativities.
He that is warme, thinkes all so.
He that is warme, thinkes all so.
Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp read more
Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp of pageantry, as if
He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
