Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.