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The plant often removed cannot thrive.
The plant often removed cannot thrive.
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's read more
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's children feel the matin spring
Of life reviving, with reviving day.
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows read more
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.
Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.
Amongst good men two men suffice.
Amongst good men two men suffice.
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.