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Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than
his children?
What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than
his children?
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
In spending lies the advantage.
In spending lies the advantage.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
