The point is plain as a pike staff.

The point is plain as a pike staff.

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.

Dally not with mony or women.

Dally not with mony or women.

Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.

Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.

Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.

Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.

She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to read more

She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.