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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.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
All feete tread not in one shoe.
All feete tread not in one shoe.
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.
To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.
If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.
If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.