"Fairies are very shy creatures and prefer to keep themselves hidden from human eyes"

"Fairies, elves, mermaids and water-babies inhabit the magical world created by Shirley Barber"

"The world of fairies is all around us, though we seldom notice it"

"If you look very carefully, you may see a fairy in your garden"

"You are, and haue beene feared ouer all, England's an Ile, of stoute and hardie men: Be stronge in faith, your foes d…"

"Before you act, it's Prudence soberly to consider; for after Action you cannot recede without dishonour: Take the Adv…"

"The Wages of Sin is Death; it's poor Wages that will not make a Man live; as Virtue is its own Reward, so Sin is its …"

"Phidias made the statue of Venus at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a…"

"And then the English Ministrels blew aloud their Trumpets, and sounded their Pipes, and other Instruments of Martial …"

"[S]ome learned writers...have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram...because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the t…"