Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

The icy precepts of respect.

Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.