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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.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Do what you should, not what you may.
That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a read more
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
It is better to have wings then hornes.
It is better to have wings then hornes.
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
