Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
There is a tide in the affairs of men