It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.