The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.

Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.

Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.

Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of read more

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

She only said, My life is dreary,
He cometh not, she said;
She said I am aweary, read more

She only said, My life is dreary,
He cometh not, she said;
She said I am aweary, aweary,
Oh God, that I were dead.

My poverty, but not my will consents.

My poverty, but not my will consents.

One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.

One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.

Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!

Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!