Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.

Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Everyone is a master and servant.

Everyone is a master and servant.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

Two other precious drops that ready stood,
Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell
Kiss'd.

Two other precious drops that ready stood,
Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell
Kiss'd.

Never was anything so inconsistent.

Never was anything so inconsistent.

So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, read more

So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below and saints above,
For love is read more

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below and saints above,
For love is heaven and heaven is love.