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If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
Put your toong in your purse.
Put your toong in your purse.
Successful villany is called virtue.
Successful villany is called virtue.
He that marries late, marries ill.
He that marries late, marries ill.
One swallow does not make spring.
One swallow does not make spring.
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
There is an order
Of mortals on the earth, who do become
Old in their youth, and read more
There is an order
Of mortals on the earth, who do become
Old in their youth, and die ere middle age.