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Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.
Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
employment.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
employment.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.
He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
Yestreen, when to the trembling string
The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',
To thee my fancy read more
Yestreen, when to the trembling string
The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',
To thee my fancy took its wing;
I sat, but neither heard nor saw.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
