Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.