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And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

Geoffrey Chaucer

O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?

Geoffrey Chaucer

Note 1.All cry and no wool.--Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 852.

Sir John Fortescue

Nothing is impossible to a willing hart.

John Heywood

Set the cart before the horse.

John Heywood

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That earth affords or grows by kind:
Though much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

Sir Edward Dyer

Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.

Sir Edward Coke

Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust!

Sir Walter Raleigh

Historie of the World. Book v. Part 1.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Note 5.Written in a glass window obvious to the Queen's eye. "Her Majesty, either espying or being shown it, did under-write, ‘If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.'"--Thomas Fuller: Worthies of England, vol. i. p. 419.

Sir Walter Raleigh

O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

Edmund Spenser

For all that Nature by her mother-wit
Could frame in earth.

Edmund Spenser

Full little knowest thou that hast not tride,
What hell it is in suing long to bide:
To loose good dayes, that might be better spent;
To wast long nights in pensive discontent;
To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow;
To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares;
To eate thy heart through comfortlesse dispaires;
To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne,
To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne.
Unhappie wight, borne to desastrous end,
That doth his life in so long tendance spend!

Edmund Spenser

What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

Edmund Spenser

f Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,--the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

Richard Hooker

I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.

Sir Philip Sidney

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

Sir Philip Sidney

Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.

George Chapman

With that she dasht her on the lippes,
So dyed double red:
Hard was the heart that gave the blow,
Soft were those lips that bled.

William Warner

O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

Fer. Here's my hand.
Mir. And mine, with my heart in 't.

William Shakespeare

Your heart's desires be with you!

William Shakespeare

We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside,
As many other mannish cowards have.

William Shakespeare

O, good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion.

William Shakespeare

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