John Fletcher

"'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches."

"Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill."

"Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! What an inviting hell invented."

"Death hath so many doors to let out life."

"Let's meet and either do or die."

"Of all the paths lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest."

"'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being restrained, a heart is broken."

"Something given that way."

"Deeds, not words."

"I'll put a spoke among your wheels."

"Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves."

"Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!"

"Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again."

"I'll have a fling."

"O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people."

"We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him?"

"Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face."

"Though I say't that should not say't."

"Go far—too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;— One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still."

"What mare's nest hast thou found?"

"Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe."

"Sing a song of sixpence."

"Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to!—"

"From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot."

"Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority."

"As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell."

"Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast."

"Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still; And when the stars are labouring, we believe It is not that they govern, but they grieve For stubborn ignorance; all things that are Made for our general uses, are at war, — Even we among ourselves; and from the strife, Your first unlike opinions got a life."

"Man is his own star, and that soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man."

"Charity and treating begin at home."

"Let them learn first to show pity at home."

"He 'as had a stinger."

"Vow me no vows."

"Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil."

"Whistle, and she'll come to you."

"Let the world slide."

"Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one."

"Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, And then they shine."

"I'll put that in my considering cap."

"Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow."

"And he that will to bed go sober Falls with the leaf in October."

"Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallow-tree."

"Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears! But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee."

"Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep."

"The foot in the grave."

"One good turn deserves another."

"This is a pretty flimflam."

"There is no jesting with edge tools."

"That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels."

"This is a gimcrack That can get nothing but new fashions on you."