Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.