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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Great king,
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Great king,
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Neither cast your pearls before swine.
Neither cast your pearls before swine.
For man is man, and master of his fate.
For man is man, and master of his fate.
They dance, they revel, and they sing,
Till the rude turrets shake and ring.
They dance, they revel, and they sing,
Till the rude turrets shake and ring.
Divine grace was never slow.
Divine grace was never slow.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent
without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent
without hope.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
