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Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Life ain't all beer and skittles.
Life ain't all beer and skittles.
Fear not the future, weep not for the past.
Fear not the future, weep not for the past.
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
No tye can oblige the perfidious.
[No tie can oblige the perfidious.]
No tye can oblige the perfidious.
[No tie can oblige the perfidious.]
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
Love makes one fitt for any work.
Love makes one fitt for any work.
The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.
The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.