Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our
regard for the donor.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our
regard for the donor.

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.

But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.

As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love read more

As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love there is no lack," thus I begin;
"Fair words make fools," replieth he again;
"Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;
"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";
"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;
"A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";
"Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";
"Light burden's heavy, if far borne";
Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";
"Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.
And having thus awhile each other thwarted
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.

There is no evil without its compensation.

There is no evil without its compensation.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.

Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.

No one should be judge in his own cause.

No one should be judge in his own cause.