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The whole family is packed into one trap.
The whole family is packed into one trap.
 The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love 
that of children.  
 The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love 
that of children. 
 The very rats
 Instinctively had quit it.  
 The very rats
 Instinctively had quit it. 
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.
 Fast bind, fast find--
 A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.  
 Fast bind, fast find--
 A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. 
 All seems infected that th' infected spy,
 As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.  
 All seems infected that th' infected spy,
 As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. 
 For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the 
horse is lost, for read more 
 For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the 
horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. 
A naughty child is better sick then whole.
A naughty child is better sick then whole.