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A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the read more
They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
In sports and journeys men are knowne.
In sports and journeys men are knowne.
The bit that one eates, no friend makes.
The bit that one eates, no friend makes.
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.
Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.