A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
My true love hath my heart, and I have his
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.