When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of
gold?

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of
gold?

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they
fall.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they
fall.

A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.

A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.

Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.

Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.

Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.

Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.

The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to read more

The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to despise counsell.

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?