Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.
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 sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.