Maxioms by John Webster
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent,
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent,
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
All his reverend wit
Lies in his wardrobe.
All his reverend wit
Lies in his wardrobe.
