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A little and good fills the trencher.
A little and good fills the trencher.
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause
for sorrow has arisen.
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause
for sorrow has arisen.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh,
it is a tree of life.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh,
it is a tree of life.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.
Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.
When age is jocond it makes sport for death.
When age is jocond it makes sport for death.
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
