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.

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!