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Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne
Carpenters (to make them crutches).
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne
Carpenters (to make them crutches).
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested
in adversity.
As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested
in adversity.
After the house is finisht, leave it.
After the house is finisht, leave it.