If music be the food of love, play on.

If music be the food of love, play on.

My soul is dark! oh quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear.

My soul is dark! oh quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear.

Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.

The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.

He that is once borne, once must dy.

He that is once borne, once must dy.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.

What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.