What valor were it, when a cur...

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

We must be brief when traitors...

We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

Like one who draws the model o...

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

It is a sin to be a mocker....

It is a sin to be a mocker.

For though the camomile, the m...

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

A woman's fitness comes by fit...

A woman's fitness comes by fits.

Speak, what trade art thou?

Speak, what trade art thou?
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What does thou with thy best apparel on?

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No, by my soul, I never in my ...

No, by my soul, I never in my life
Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
Unless a brother should a brother dare
To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

Against ill chances men are ev...

Against ill chances men are ever merry,
But heaviness foreruns the good event.

This world is not for aye, nor...

This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

That we would do
We shoul...

That we would do
We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
That hurts by easing.

All things that we ordained fe...

All things that we ordained festival
Turn from their office to black funeral--
Our instruments to melancholy bells,
Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;
And all things change them to the contrary.

The love of wicked men convert...

The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should

Nay, had I pow'r, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.

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As chaste as is the bud ere it...

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

Of chastity, the ornaments are...

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Love and meekness, lord,
...

Love and meekness, lord,
Become a churchman better than ambition:
Win straying souls with modesty again,
Cast none away.

My prophecy is but half his jo...

My prophecy is but half his journey yet,
For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,
Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
Must kiss their own feet.

Comets importing change of tim...

Comets importing change of times and states,
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky
And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

O my good lord, that comfort c...

O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
'Tis like a pardon after execution.
That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.