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Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.
Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy
those who are well to do.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy
those who are well to do.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He threatens many that hath injured one.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what
is not known.
What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what
is not known.
