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Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.
The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
You may be on land, yet not in a garden.
You may be on land, yet not in a garden.
He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his
head.
He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his
head.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son
makes him a foole.
Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son
makes him a foole.
In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.
In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.