Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

Look here, he cries (to give him words):
Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!
Look here, read more

Look here, he cries (to give him words):
Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!
Look here, thou vile, predestined sinner,
Doomed to be roasted for a dinner.

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.

Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.

Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and
heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those read more

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and
heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar
off.

Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.

Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.

Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.