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To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.
Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.
He who fears his servants is less than a servant.
He who fears his servants is less than a servant.
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so read more
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
Give me the ocular proof.
Give me the ocular proof.
