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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting
his ground?
With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting
his ground?
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
Man Proposeth, God disposeth.
Man Proposeth, God disposeth.
Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.
Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.
Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.