Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

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.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.