John Harington
John Harington
honesty doctors way
From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
call dare doth none treason
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason
call dare doth none reason treason
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason
case hide legal
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
beautiful strong wine
Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
book criticism care
The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
lying fall men
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
fishing water troubled-waters
Best fishing in troubled waters.
men giving too-much
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
cooking guests praise
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
history politics reason-why
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.