Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
[Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
[Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]

'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.

This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.

Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.

Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.

Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

The more the eggs, the worse the hatch,
The more the fish, the worse the catch.

The more the eggs, the worse the hatch,
The more the fish, the worse the catch.