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No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.
He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.
Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then
by stars at their nativities.
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then
by stars at their nativities.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!