"Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake?"

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

"Every man for himselfe and God for us all."

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

"Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke."

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

"This hitteth the naile on the hed."

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.

"Enough is as good as a feast."

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.

"God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat."

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

"Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good."

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. A Description of the Properties of Wind.

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year."

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. The Farmer's Daily Diet.

"Such, mistress, such Nan, Such master, such man."

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. April's Abstract.

"Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing."

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. June's Abstract.

"'T is merry in hall Where beards wag all."

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. August's Abstract.

"Naught venture naught have."

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October's Abstract.

"Dry sun, dry wind; Safe bind, safe find."

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Washing.

"The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue."

The Paradise of Dainty Devices.

"My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind: Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave."

MS. Rawl. 85, p. 17.

"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more: They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I have; they pine, I live."

MS. Rawl. 85, p. 17.

"I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood."

Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act ii.

"Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old."

Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act ii.

"On cherubs and on cherubims Full royally he rode; And on the wings of all the winds Came flying all abroad."

A Metrical Version of Psalm civ.

"A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, Continuall comfort in a face The lineaments of Gospell bookes."

An Elegie; or Friend's Passion for his Astrophill.

"Was never eie did see that face, Was never eare did heare that tong, Was never minde did minde his grace, That ever thought the travell long; But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught."

An Elegie; or Friend's Passion for his Astrophill.

"The gladsome light of jurisprudence."

First Institute.

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason."

First Institute.

"For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium."

Third Institute. Page 162.

"The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose."

Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91.

"They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls."

Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.

"Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign."

Debate in the Commons, May 17, 1628.

"His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! Oh swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing."

Sonnet. Polyhymnia.

"His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms."

Sonnet. Polyhymnia.

"My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!"

Cupid's Curse.

"If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love."

The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd.

"Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not."

Fain Would I.

"Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb."

The Silent Lover.

"Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity."

The Silent Lover.

"Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie."

The Lie.

"Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay."

Verses to Edmund Spenser.

"Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out."

On the snuff of a candle the night before he died.--Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661.

"Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!"

Written the night before his death.--Found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster.

"Shall I, like an hermit, dwell On a rock or in a cell?"

Poem.

"If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?"

Poem.

"If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?"

Poem.

"[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over."

Historie of the World. Preface.

"O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!"

Historie of the World. Book v. Part 1.

"Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song."

Faerie Queene. Introduction. St. 1.

"A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine."

Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 1.

"O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!"

Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 9.

"The noblest mind the best contentment has."

Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 35.

"A bold bad man."

Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 37.

"Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."

Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto iii. St. 4.

"Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!"

Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 1.