It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.

And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,
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And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.

Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.

Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.

Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.

Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed
to rich men that are unthankful to God).

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed
to rich men that are unthankful to God).

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.