The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
The nature of bad news affects the teller.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.