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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.
He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
