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If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
One day unfolds it and one day destroys.
One day unfolds it and one day destroys.
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health,
perception, and judgment.
[Lat., Quem read more
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health,
perception, and judgment.
[Lat., Quem dii diligunt,
Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]
