Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]

Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

The first blow is as much as two.

The first blow is as much as two.

Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]

Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]

In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.

In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage
money.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage
money.

And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.

And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.