Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.

If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.

[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.

[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.

'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be read more

'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

Set all at sixe and seven.

Set all at sixe and seven.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.