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Put your toong in your purse.
Put your toong in your purse.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that read more
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because read more
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.
And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.
Omittance is no quittance.
Omittance is no quittance.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.