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By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).
To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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.