How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred
woman.

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred
woman.

To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.

To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.

To hear is to heed.

To hear is to heed.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave
fault to speak of matters read more

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave
fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.

A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.

Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.