Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.