Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.

You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

He that will take the bird, must not skare it.

He that will take the bird, must not skare it.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

Safe bind, safe find.

Safe bind, safe find.

Yestreen, when to the trembling string
The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',
To thee my fancy read more

Yestreen, when to the trembling string
The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',
To thee my fancy took its wing;
I sat, but neither heard nor saw.