A City that parlies is half gotten.

A City that parlies is half gotten.

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.

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.

I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.

I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.

And with them words of so sweet breath composed
As made the things more rich.

And with them words of so sweet breath composed
As made the things more rich.

In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

Physician, heal thyself.

Physician, heal thyself.

Hope is the poore mans bread.

Hope is the poore mans bread.

It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

It's an ill councell that hath no escape.