False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.