If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

He enters the port with a full sail.

He enters the port with a full sail.

Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause
Its source one tyrant passion draws,
Till mastering all within.

Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause
Its source one tyrant passion draws,
Till mastering all within.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And out hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled read more

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And out hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.

The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.