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What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
Long jesting was never good.
Long jesting was never good.
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.
The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.
The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.
None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.
None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
Never less alone, than when alone.
Never less alone, than when alone.
