When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.

A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.

So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, read more

So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.

The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten.

The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow
plenty of time for the measure.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow
plenty of time for the measure.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.