A good bargaine is a pick-purse.

A good bargaine is a pick-purse.

Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.

Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.

Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.
[Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]

Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.
[Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]

An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate read more

But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.

Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his
physician his heir.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his
physician his heir.