Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Love is a wonderful, terrible thing