So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.

So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has read more

What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself
with the affairs of others.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself
with the affairs of others.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Fine words dresse ill deedes.

Fine words dresse ill deedes.