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The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
