Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.

Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.

To gaine teacheth how to spend.

To gaine teacheth how to spend.

Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will
become broken and his torch extinguished.

Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will
become broken and his torch extinguished.

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

Although the last, not least.

Although the last, not least.

Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream read more

Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,
From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,
To caper on sunny greens and slopes,
Instead of the dance upon nothing.