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Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or
something better of the same sort, must form read more
Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or
something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every
Englishman's education.
Shee spins well that breedes her children.
Shee spins well that breedes her children.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your read more
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.
The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.
The longest Day hath an Eueninge.
The longest Day hath an Eueninge.
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
