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Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again.
Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.
To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.
To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.
I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.
I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.