With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more

With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.

Hell is full of good intentions.
[Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]

Hell is full of good intentions.
[Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]

The cares that flutter batlike round fretted roofs.

The cares that flutter batlike round fretted roofs.

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in read more

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

We frolic while 'tis May.

We frolic while 'tis May.

Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.

Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.

Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.

Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.

None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.

None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.