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Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
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?
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
There are many waies to fame.
There are many waies to fame.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
A good bargaine is a pick-purse.