"Gae, silly worm, drudge, trudge, and travell, So thou maist gain Some honour or some golden gravell: But Death the while to fill his number, With sudden call Takes thee from all, To prove thy daies but dream and slumber." JOSHUA SYLVESTER, _Mottoes_. FOR OFFICES OR WORKSHOPS. "Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest; Lend more than thou owest; Learn more than thou trowest." SHAKSPERE. "A spending hand that always poureth out, Had need to have a bringer-in as fast; And on the stone that still doth turn about There groweth no moss: these proverbs yet do last." SIR T. WYATT. "How many might in time have wise been made, Before their time, had they not thought them so? What artist e'er was master of his trade Yer he began his prenticeship to know? "To some one act apply thy whole affection, And in the craft of others seldom mell; But in thine own strive to attain perfection, For 'tis no little honour to excell." _Quadrains of Pibrac_, translated by JOSHUA SYLVESTER. "If youth knew what age would crave, Youth would then both get and save." "Flee, flee, the idle brain; Flee, flee from doing nought; For never was there idle brain, But bred an idle thought." "Get to live; then live to use it, else it is not true that thou hast gotten."--G. HERBERT. "To him that is willing, ways are not wanting." FOR SHOPS. "Whoso trusteth ere he know, Doth hurt himself and please his foe." SIR THOMAS WYATT. "Think much of a trifle, Though small it appear; Small sands make the mountain, And moments the year." FOR A BELL-TURRET. "We take no note of time But from its loss; to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." YOUNG'S _Night Thoughts_. FOR A BATHING-HOUSE. "Do not fear to put thy feet Naked in the river sweet; Think nor leach, or newt, or toad Will bite thy foot, where thou hast trod." BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, _Faithful Shepherdess_. With those still more admirable "legends" which may be selected from the Bible I do not meddle. In it golden words of comfort and admonition lie strewn so thickly, that error cannot be made by a selector. It may not be amiss, also, for the illuminator to remember, that not unfrequently "a verse may find him whom a sermon flies."