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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
Restive horses must be roughly dealt with.
Restive horses must be roughly dealt with.
The best bred have the best portion.
The best bred have the best portion.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.
Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others.
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others.
