Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.

Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.