Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you
embrace another.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you
embrace another.

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.

A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.

Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the
market.

Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the
market.