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In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense,
to leave it to boys to enjoy read more
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense,
to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.
Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.