The present eye praises the present object.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.