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The Germans wit is in his fingers.
The Germans wit is in his fingers.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Most men are bad.
Most men are bad.
Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
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Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
She prized it once.
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.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
Autumnall Agues are long, or mortall.
Autumnall Agues are long, or mortall.