How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.

The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

Buy at a faire, but sell at home.

Buy at a faire, but sell at home.

'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.