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A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not
discretion.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not
discretion.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.