A pint of beer in the saloon bar costs a penny more than in the public bar.

As with any prosimetrical text, the Libellus Æthelwoldi raises interesting questions about the inter-relationships of verse and prose

It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.

If you would make Fortune your friend, or, to personise her no longer, if you desire, my son, to be rich, and have money, be more eager to save than acquire : when people say, money is to be got here, and money is to be got there, take no notice; mind your own business; stay where you are, and secure all you can get without stirring.