Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.

Here is a fine field for talent.

Here is a fine field for talent.

Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.

Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.

I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.

I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.

Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear,
That things ill got had ever bad success?

But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear,
That things ill got had ever bad success?

Give me the ocular proof.

Give me the ocular proof.