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He that serves, must serve.
He that serves, must serve.
Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
Yeeres know more then bookes.
Yeeres know more then bookes.
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft
remonstrance.
He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft
remonstrance.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.