The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
And all their ministers attend on him.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.