Sir Walter Raleigh

Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not read more

Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.