The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he read more

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.

Great things rush to the destruction of each other.

Great things rush to the destruction of each other.

Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.

Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.

Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?

Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for
another.]

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for
another.]

Time stoops to no man's lure.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.