If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas