Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long read more

Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long attack us.

Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.

Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.

The rills of pleasure never run sincere,
(Earth has no unpolluted spring)
From the cursed soil some read more

The rills of pleasure never run sincere,
(Earth has no unpolluted spring)
From the cursed soil some dang'rous taint they bear;
So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be
thirsty, give him water to read more

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be
thirsty, give him water to drink.
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord
shall reward thee.

Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.

Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.