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By that sin fell the angels.
By that sin fell the angels.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
If that you have a former friend for foe.
If that you have a former friend for foe.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
With but a plank between them and their fate.
With but a plank between them and their fate.