"Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge."

Defence of Poesy.

"He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner."

Defence of Poesy.

"I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."

Defence of Poesy.

"High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy."

Arcadia. Book i.

"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts."

Arcadia. Book i.

"My dear, my better half."

Arcadia. Book iii.

"Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write."

Astrophel and Stella, i.

"Have I caught my heav'nly jewel."

Astrophel and Stella, i. Second Song.

"A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em."

The Revenger's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"O wearisome condition of humanity!"

Mustapha. Act v. Sc. 4.

"And out of mind as soon as out of sight."

Sonnet lvi.

"None ever loved but at first sight they loved."

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria.

"An ill weed grows apace."

An Humorous Day's Mirth.

"Black is a pearl in a woman's eye."

An Humorous Day's Mirth.

"Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare."

All Fools. Act i. Sc. 1.

"I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines."

All Fools. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Cor. Oh, that 's for lovers' thoughts."

All Fools. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour."

All Fools. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."

All Fools. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err."

Monsieur D'Olive. Act i. Sc. 1.

"For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still."

Monsieur D'Olive. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words."

The Gentleman Usher. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"To put a girdle round about the world."

Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1.

"His deeds inimitable, like the sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts."

Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1.

"So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live."

Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Who to himself is law no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed."

Bussy D'Ambois. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself."

Bussy D'Ambois. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven."

Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air."

Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best."

Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Words writ in waters."

Revenge for Honour. Act v. Sc. 2.

"They 're only truly great who are truly good."

Revenge for Honour. Act v. Sc. 2.

"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'T is good to be merry and wise."

Eastward Ho. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Make ducks and drakes with shillings."

Eastward Ho. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here."

Eastward Ho. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Enough 's as good as a feast."

Eastward Ho. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Fair words never hurt the tongue."

Eastward Ho. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"Let pride go afore, shame will follow after."

Eastward Ho. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf."

Eastward Ho. Act v. Sc. 1.

"As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose."

Epilogue to Translations.

"Promise is most given when the least is said."

Musæus of Hero and Leander.

"With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red: Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled."

Albion's England. Book viii. chap. xli. stanza 53.

"We thinke no greater blisse then such To be as be we would, When blessed none but such as be The same as be they should."

Albion's England. Book x. chap. lix. stanza 68.

"O Douglas, O Douglas! Tendir and trewe."

The Buke of the Howlat. Stanza xxxi.

"Treason doth never prosper: what 's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

Epigrams. Book iv. Ep. 5.

"As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find."

History of the Civil War. Book iv. Stanza 84.

"Sacred religion! mother of form and fear."

Musophilus. Stanza 57.

"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."

Musophilus. Stanza 97.

"This is the thing that I was born to do."

Musophilus. Stanza 100.

"And who (in time) knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?"

Musophilus. Stanza 163.