Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.

Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.

For a morning raine leave not your journey.

For a morning raine leave not your journey.

To buy deare is not bounty.

To buy deare is not bounty.

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).

To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.

We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.

But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a read more

But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.