Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.