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Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with read more
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
With his own weapon do I stab him.
With his own weapon do I stab him.
If you can't beat them, join them.
If you can't beat them, join them.
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to
those who look back on what has read more
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to
those who look back on what has passed.
Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]