The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

The timely dew of sleep.