The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.

The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.

Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright
Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.

Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright
Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.

Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.

But who alas! can love and then be wise?

But who alas! can love and then be wise?

Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.

Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.

Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.