Lay by the good a while; a resting field
Will, after ease, a richer harvest yield;
Trees this year bear: next, they their wealth withhold:
Continual reaping makes a land wax old.
923. REVENGE.
Man's disposition is for to requite
An injury, before a benefit:
Thanksgiving is a burden and a pain;
Revenge is pleasing to us, as our gain.
924. THE FIRST MARS OR MAKES.
In all our high designments 'twill appear,
The first event breeds confidence or fear.
925. BEGINNING DIFFICULT.
Hard are the two first stairs unto a crown:
Which got, the third bids him a king come down.
926. FAITH FOUR-SQUARE.
Faith is a thing that's four-square; let it fall
This way or that, it not declines at all.