Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.

Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.

At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

Let the dead bury their dead.

Let the dead bury their dead.

Little losses amaze, great tame.

Little losses amaze, great tame.

You are judged of by what you possess.

You are judged of by what you possess.

Nothing is impossible to industry.

Nothing is impossible to industry.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.