Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Until death it is all life.

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.