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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be read more
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Without businesse debauchery.
Without businesse debauchery.
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40,
nor wise at 50, read more
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40,
nor wise at 50, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.