"Or almost like a spider, who, confin'd In her web's centre, shakt with every winde, Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie Stir but a string of her lawn canapie."

"These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul."

"Living from hand to mouth."

"Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb,—before in ure he put His violent engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part."

"To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather."

"For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?"

"A good turn at need, At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed."

"Not that the earth doth yield In hill or dale, in forest or in field, A rarer plant."

"Dog, ounce, bear, and bull, Wolfe, lion, horse."

"'T is what you will,—or will be what you would."

"Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils."

"There is no theam more plentifull to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man."

"From north to south, from east to west."

"Hot and cold, and moist and dry."

"From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste."

"Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes; Who loving novels, full of affectation, Receive the manners of each other nation."

"And reads, though running, all these needful motions."

"Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by degrees she fashions out the pawes, The head, and neck, and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing."

"Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies."

"Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion."

"Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule."

"What is well done is done soon enough."

"And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by."

"The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts."

"Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses."

"Night's black mantle covers all alike."

"With tooth and nail."

""O frate," disse, "chesti qu'io ti cerno col ditto," e additò un spirto innanzi, "fu miglior fabbro del parlar materno. Versi d'amore e prose di romanzi soverchiò tutti; e lascia dir li stolti che quel di Lemosì credon ch'avanzi."

"Fra tutti il primo Arnaldo Danïello Gran maestro d'amor; ch'a la sua terra Ancor fa onor col suo dir strano e bello."

"Mas greu veiretz fin' amansa ses paor e ses doptansa, c'ades tem om vas so c'ama, falhir, per qu'eu no·m aus de parlar enardir."

"En breu brizara'l temps braus E'l biza, e'l brus e'l blancx Qui s'entresenhon trastuig De sobre claus ram de fuelha."

"E fo meiller trobaire que negus d'aquels qu'eron estat denan ni foron après lui; per que fo apellatz maestre dels trobadors, et es ancar per totz aquels que ben entendon subtils ditz ni ben pauzatz d'amor e de sen."

"E si tot venta'ill freg'aura, L'amor qu'ins el cor mi pleu Mi ten caut on plus iverna."

"Can vei la lauzeta mover De joi sas alas contra·l rai, Que s'oblid'e·s laissa chazer Per la doussor c'al cor li vai, Ai, tan grans enveya m'en ve De cui qu'eu veya jauzïon."

"Ieu sui Arnautz qu'amas l'aura E cas la lebre ab lo bueu E nadi contra suberna."

"Be·l saupra plus cobert far! Mas non a chans pretz enter, Can tuch no·n son parsoner."