The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.

'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.

The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.

But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.

But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.