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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.
Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.
All those must such delights expect to share,
Who for their friend think fit to take a bear.
All those must such delights expect to share,
Who for their friend think fit to take a bear.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are
great they make them mad.
Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are
great they make them mad.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.