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We must love, as looking one day to hate.
We must love, as looking one day to hate.
Idle people have the least leisure.
Idle people have the least leisure.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good read more
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.