Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.

The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.

Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.

Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.

'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.

'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.

A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.

A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage
against her will.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage
against her will.

Sit in your place and none can make you rise.

Sit in your place and none can make you rise.

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

All soils are not fertile.

All soils are not fertile.