When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.

I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.

All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.

All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.

Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?

Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?

Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?

Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.

Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.

Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.

Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.

Many a smale maketh a grate.

Many a smale maketh a grate.