Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.

Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.

Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.

Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.

Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?

Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?

Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.

Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.

But who alas! can love and then be wise?

But who alas! can love and then be wise?

What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?

What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?

(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.

(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.