Early Rising Is No Pleasure; Early Drinking's

Parisians Are So Besotted, So Silly And So Naturally Inept That A Street Player, A Seller Of Indulgences, A Mule With Its Cymbals,a Fiddler In The Middle Of A Crossroads, Will Draw More People Than Would A Good Evangelist Preacher.

Time, Which Gnaws And Diminisheth All Things Else, Augments And Increaseth Benefits; Because A Noble Action Of Liberality, Done To A Man Of Reason, Doth Grow Continually By His Generous Thinking Of It And Remembering It.

One Falls To The Ground In Trying To Sit On Two Stools.

Not Everyone Is A Debtor Who Wishes To Be; Not Everyone Who Wishes Makes Creditors.

So That We May Not Be Like The Athenians, Who Never Consulted Except After The Event Done. [fr., Afin Que Ne Semblons Es Athenians, Qui Ne Consultoient Jamais Sinon Apres Le Cas Faict.]