George Herbert

Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.

To a boyling pot flies come not.

Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer.

Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.

All truths are not to be told.

He that lives well is learned enough.

Hee that goes barefoot must not plant thornes.

He that is warme thinkes all so.

Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?

When a dog is a-drowning every one offers him drink.

Hearken to Reason, or shee will bee heard.

Ill ware is never cheape.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

When all sinnes growe old covetousnesse is young.

Pleasing ware is halfe sould.

The scalded dog feares cold water.

Man proposeth, God disposeth.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

Love is that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.

Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand.

You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat: So I did sit and eat.

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked any thing.

O who will show me those delights on high? Echo: I.