When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.
Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.