Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.
And lash the vice and follies of the age.
Want is the mistress of invention
Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.
TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.
I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.