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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Most men are bad.
Most men are bad.
Put your toong in your purse.
Put your toong in your purse.
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon read more
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.