"Duly twice a morning Would I be sprinkling it with fountain-water. At last it grew, and grew, and bore, and bore, Til…"

"In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave …"

"Where words prevail not, violence prevails; But gold doth more than either of them both."

"What outcries pluck me from my naked bed And chill my throbbing heart with trembling fear."

"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, b…"

"Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own."

"Dost thou think to live till his old doublet will make thee a new truss?"

"For what's a play without a woman in it?"

"My son – and what's a son? A thing begot Within a pair of minutes, thereabout: A lump bred up in darkness."

"As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me,…"