It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!

They say miracles are past.

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.