What Can Be Avoided Whose

And The More Pity That Great Folk Should Have Count'nance In This World To Drown Or Hang Themselves More Than Their Even-christen.

Preferment Goes By Letter And Affection, And Not By Old Gradation, Where Each Second Stood Heir To Th's First.

Tis But A Base, Ignoble Mind That Mounts No Higher Than A Bird Can Soar.

Thus Have I, Wall, My Part Discharged So; And, Being Done, Thus Wall Away Doth Go.

Like A Dull Actor Now, I Have Forgot My Part, And I Am Out, Even To A Full Disgrace.