The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.
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.