"Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes."

Apothegms. No. 64.

"Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.""

Apothegms. No. 76.

"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Apothegms. No. 97.

"Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone.""

Apothegms. No. 193.

"Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.""

Apothegms. No. 206.

"Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new."

Apothegms. No. 247.

"As the case stands."

The Old Law. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"On his last legs."

The Old Law. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Hold their noses to the grindstone."

Blurt, Master-Constable. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"I smell a rat."

Blurt, Master-Constable. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long."

The Phoenix. Act i. Sc. 1.

"The better day, the better deed."

The Phoenix. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"The worst comes to the worst."

The Phoenix. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"'T is slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift."

Michaelmas Term. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"From thousands of our undone widows One may derive some wit."

A Trick to catch the Old One. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary."

The Family of Love. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"Spick and span new."

The Family of Love. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"A flat case as plain as a pack-staff."

The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3.

"Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?"

The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3.

"As true as I live."

The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3.

"From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot."

A Mad World, my Masters. Act i. Sc. 3.

"That disease Of which all old men sicken,--avarice."

The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes."

The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1.

"There is no hate lost between us."

The Witch. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"Let the air strike our tune, Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon."

The Witch. Act v. Sc. 2.

"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may."

The Witch. Act v. Sc. 2.

"All is not gold that glisteneth."

A Fair Quarrel. Act v. Sc. 1.

"As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet."

More Dissemblers besides Women. Act i. Sc. 4.

"'T is a stinger."

More Dissemblers besides Women. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"The world 's a stage on which all parts are played."

A Game at Chess. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Turn over a new leaf."

Anything for a Quiet Life. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"My nearest And dearest enemy."

Anything for a Quiet Life. Act v. Sc. 1.

"This was a good week's labour."

Anything for a Quiet Life. Act v. Sc. 3.

"How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!"

No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"By many a happy accident."

No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!"

The Character of a Happy Life.

"Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend."

The Character of a Happy Life.

"Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all."

The Character of a Happy Life.

"You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,-- What are you when the moon shall rise?"

On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia.

"He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died."

Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife.

"I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff."

Preface to the Elements of Architecture.

"Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to."

The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex.

"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth."

Reliquiæ Wottonianæ.

"The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches."

A Panegyric to King Charles.

"As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made."

Address to the Nightingale.

"Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side."

The Immortality of the Soul.

"Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts, where meet a public rout,-- Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out."

Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.

"Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas."

Song.

"When the stormy winds do blow."

Song.

"He was the Word, that spake it: He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it."

Divine Poems. On the Sacrament.