Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.