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Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
The cares that flutter batlike round fretted roofs.
The cares that flutter batlike round fretted roofs.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured.
By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured.
That which sufficeth is not little.
That which sufficeth is not little.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.