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.

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.