Faire language grates not the tongue.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?

Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.

Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.

Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.

Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!

Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!