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I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.
I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
The absent partie is still faultie.
The absent partie is still faultie.
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
No naked man is sought after to be rifled.
No naked man is sought after to be rifled.
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.