Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.

Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.

He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.

He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.

Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

So--now the danger dared at last,
Look back and smile at perils past!

So--now the danger dared at last,
Look back and smile at perils past!

Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.

Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.

The tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.

The tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.