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Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be read more
'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of read more
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
God keep me from false friends!
God keep me from false friends!
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Who's to look after the keepers?
Who's to look after the keepers?
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in
joke.
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in
joke.