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Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee
will repay thee.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee
will repay thee.
Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.
Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.
You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.
You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.
What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
