“O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.” SaidGrowthLordBrotherMy BrotherWeedIdle Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version) Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.” PeopleGivingLongSaidEnoughSinAskingListsMinistersGentlemanLazyLazinessIdleEnough Said Book:John Ploughman's Talks Source: John Ploughman's Talks