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Forbeare not sowing because of birds.
Forbeare not sowing because of birds.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only
knew the pleasures which surround you!
Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only
knew the pleasures which surround you!
I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no
colors.'
I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no
colors.'
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far read more
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went,
In that new world that is the old.
The market is the best garden.
The market is the best garden.