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That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.
In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.
In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
The eye will have his part.
The eye will have his part.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.