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The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.
Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
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Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
In a long journey straw waighs.
In a long journey straw waighs.
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings
with joy.
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings
with joy.
Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.
Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.