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So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
Every bullet has its billet.
Every bullet has its billet.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
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.
