Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.

Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.

He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.