Pray you now, forget and forgive.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

Boldness be my friend.

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.