Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!

Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!

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.

Prevention is better than cure.

Prevention is better than cure.

Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.

I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]

I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]

Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.

Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good read more

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.