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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long read more
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long attack us.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
Of a little thing a little displeaseth.
Of a little thing a little displeaseth.