I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu!
You've play'd with me, now play with others too.

I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu!
You've play'd with me, now play with others too.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

Such pains they take to look pretty.

Such pains they take to look pretty.

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.

Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.

Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.

Dull not device by coldness and delay.

Dull not device by coldness and delay.

Much matter decocted into few words.

Much matter decocted into few words.

Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.

Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.

I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so read more

I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.