For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.

For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.

How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.

How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.

Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.

Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.

It is very hard to shave an egge.

It is very hard to shave an egge.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her
cradle, and discards her nurse.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her
cradle, and discards her nurse.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.

Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.