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But they that are above Have ends in everything.

It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.

Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallow-tree.

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

Sing a song of sixpence.

A soul as white as Heaven.

Though I say't that should not say't.

Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.

Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

It would talk; Lord, how it talked!

And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

I'll put that in my considering cap.

Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;-- One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.

Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.

Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! What an inviting hell invented.