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What king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?
What king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?
All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.
All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
I saw young Harry with his visor up.
I saw young Harry with his visor up.