Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.

Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.

Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
To what they were before.

Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
To what they were before.

Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.

Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.

Vain, froward child of empire, say,
Are all thy playthings snatched away?

Vain, froward child of empire, say,
Are all thy playthings snatched away?