For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.