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With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Love rules his kingdome without a sword.
Love rules his kingdome without a sword.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.