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Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.
Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out
at the back.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out
at the back.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
Then fill the bowl--way with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;
For Hope shall brighten days to read more
Then fill the bowl--way with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;
For Hope shall brighten days to come,
And Mem'ry gild the past.
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.