Tis Often Seen Adoption Strives With Nature;

Golden Lads And Girls All Must As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust.

But Earthlier Happy Is The Rose Distill'd Than That Which Withering On The Virgin Thorn Grows, Lives, And Dies In Single Blessedness.

Civil Dissension Is A Viperous Worm That Gnaws The Bowels Of The Commonwealth.

Make The Doors Upon A Woman's Wit, And It Will Out At The Casement; Shut That, And 'twill Out At The Key-hole; Stop That, 'twill Fly With The Smoke Out At The Chimney.

Many Can Brook The Weather That Love Not The Wind.