"Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde."

"That same manne, that renneth awaye, Maye again fight, an other daye."

"For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health."

"I am sorie God made me so comely."

"Wowers never speede well, that have a false harte."

"Yea, Custance, better (they say) a bad excuse than none."

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"

"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""

"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."