"Though I say it that should not say it."

Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"I name no parties."

Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 3.

"Whistle, and she'll come to you."

Wit Without Money. Act iv. Sc. 4.

"The fit 's upon me now! Come quickly, gentle lady; The fit 's upon me now."

Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 4.

"He comes not in my books."

The Widow. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Death hath so many doors to let out life."

The Customs of the Country. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity 's the straightest."

The Knight of Malta. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him."

The False One. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother."

Love's Cure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"What 's one man's poison, signor, Is another's meat or drink."

Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Primrose, first-born child of Ver, Merry springtime's harbinger."

The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act i. Sc. 1.

"O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people!"

The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?"

The Shepherd's Resolution.

"Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance."

Poem on Christmas.

"Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, And therefore let 's be merry."

Poem on Christmas.

"Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit."

The Shepherd's Hunting.

"And I oft have heard defended,-- Little said is soonest mended."

The Shepherd's Hunting.

"And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws."

Contented Man's Morrice.

"For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools."

The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv.

"No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. xviii.

"He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires,-- As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away."

Disdain Returned.

"Then fly betimes, for only they Conquer Love that run away."

Conquest by Flight.

"An untimely grave."

On the Duke of Buckingham.

"The magic of a face."

Epitaph on the Lady S----.

"Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span."

Britannia's Pastorals. Book i. Song 2.

"Did therewith bury in oblivion."

Britannia's Pastorals. Book ii. Song 2.

"Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones,--come and buy! If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Where my Julia's lips do smile,-- There 's the land, or cherry-isle."

Cherry Ripe.

"Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia."

The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.

"Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl."

The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.

"A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness."

Delight in Disorder.

"A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility,-- Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part."

Delight in Disorder.

"You say to me-wards your affection 's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long."

Love me Little, Love me Long.

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying."

To the Virgins to make much of Time.

"Fall on me like a silent dew, Or like those maiden showers Which, by the peep of day, do strew A baptism o'er the flowers."

To Music, to becalm his Fever.

"Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon."

To Daffadills.

"Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave."

Sorrows Succeed.

"Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again."

To Mistress Susanna Southwell.

"Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting-stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee."

The Night Piece to Julia.

"I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried."

The Amber Bead.

"Thus times do shift,--each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."

Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve.

"Out-did the meat, out-did the frolick wine."

Ode for Ben Jonson.

"Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing 's so hard but search will find it out."

Seek and Find.

"But ne'er the rose without the thorn."

The Rose.

"Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks."

Divine Poems (ed. 1669).

"Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Light will repay The wrongs of night; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!"

Emblems. Book i. Emblem 14.

"Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise."

Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 2.

"This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears. Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone."

Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 10, Ep. 10.

"The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made."

Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 13.

"The next way home 's the farthest way about."

Emblems. Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2.

"It is the lot of man but once to die."

Emblems. Book v. Emblem 7.