Stephen Gosson

"He is forced to go whom the devil drives."

"Pleasure is a sweet tickling of sense, with a present joy."

"After-wittes are ever best."

"Poets are the whetstones of wit."

"The Syrens song is the Saylers wrack."

"The Harpies have Virgins faces, and vultures Talentes."

"Hyena speakes like a friend, and devoures like a Foe."

"The Woolf jettes in Weathers felles."

"He that readeth good writers, and pickes out their flowers for his owne nose, is lyke a foole."

"A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all."

"He that goes to sea, must smel of the ship; and he that sayles into Poets wil savour of Pitch."

"The same water that drives the mill, decayeth it."

"Cedant arma togæ, concedat laurea linguæ."