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Craft against craft makes no living.
Craft against craft makes no living.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.
The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man,
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man,
And bitter shame hath spoiled the sweet world's taste,
That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.
They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
[Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
[Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.
In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.
