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Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well
mended.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well
mended.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.
In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we
cannot complain.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we
cannot complain.
And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.
And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee
hath laid out.
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee
hath laid out.