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.
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.