"[T]he desire of bearing sovereign rule and authority respecteth neither blood nor amity, nor caring for virtue, as be…"

"[W]here shall a man find a more wicked and bold woman than a great personage once having loosed the bands of honor an…"

"[T]he nature of all young men, especially such as are brought up wantonly, is so transported with the desires of the …"

"[T]he counselor entered secretly into the Queen's chamber and there hid himself behind the arras, not long before the…"

"Is this the part of a queen and daughter to a king? To live like a brute beast and like a mare that yieldeth her body…"

"It toucheth not the matter herein to discover the parts of divination in man, and whether this Prince, by reason of h…"

"I mean not to relate that which divers men believe, that a reasonable soul becometh the habitation of a meaner sort o…"

"As touching magical operations, I will grant them somewhat therein, finding divers histories that write thereof, and …"

"If vengeance ever seemed to have any show of justice, it is then when piety and affection constraineth us to remember…"

"[T]he diversities of opinions among that multitude of people being many, yet every man ignorant what would be the iss…"