The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.

Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

After the house is finisht, leave it.

After the house is finisht, leave it.