Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.

Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.

To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).

To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).

We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.

We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.

Love rules his kingdome without a sword.

Love rules his kingdome without a sword.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.

Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.

'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.

'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.

They dance, they revel, and they sing,
Till the rude turrets shake and ring.

They dance, they revel, and they sing,
Till the rude turrets shake and ring.