Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.