Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
William ShakespeareGive every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
William ShakespeareWooing, 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.
William Shakespeare