Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.