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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Make three bites of a cherry.
Make three bites of a cherry.
Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
