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A man perfect to the finger tips.
A man perfect to the finger tips.
Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had
cast himself from a precipice.
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had
cast himself from a precipice.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
We make allowance for necessity.
We make allowance for necessity.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
