For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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.
Dead men tell no tales.
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.