Let Hercules himself do what h...

Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

We shall be winnowed with so r...

We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind
That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff
And good from bad find no partition.

Here burns my candle out; ay, ...

Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.

Think you I bear the shears of...

Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
Have I commandment on the pulse of life?

So holy writ in babes hath jud...

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
When judges have been babes; great floods have flown
From simple sources, and great seas have dried
When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

Is not this a lamentable thing...

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent
lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled
o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis
the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was
never mind own man since.

How far your eyes may pierce I...

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell;
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Therefore doth heaven divide

Therefore doth heaven divide
The state of man in divers functions,
Setting endeavor in continual motion;
To which is fixed as an aim or butt
Obedience; for so work the honeybees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king, and officers of sorts,
Where some like magistrates correct at home,
Others like merchants venture trade abroad,<

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To apprehend thus
Draws...

To apprehend thus
Draws us a profit from all things we see,
And often, to our comfort, shall we find
The sharded beetle in a safer hold
Than is the full-winged eagle.

The glowworm shows the matin t...

The glowworm shows the matin to be near
And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

O Regan, she hath tied
...

O Regan, she hath tied
Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here.

Unkindness may do much;
...

Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.

In nature there's no blemish b...

In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deformed but the unkind.

Come, seeling night,
Sc...

Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to th' rooky wood.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

The crow doth sing as sweetly ...

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
When neither is attended; and I think
The nightingale, if she should sing by day
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.
How many thing by season seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection!

That were to blow at fire in h...

That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;
For who digs hills because they do aspire
Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.

The mountain was in labour, an...

The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought
forth a mouse.

So shall you hear
Of ca...

So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.

Ah, poor our sex! this fault ...

Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind.
What error leads must error.

This is your devoted friend, s...

This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the
armipotent soldier.