I myself am best
When lea...

I myself am best
When least in company.

Bear with my weakness. My old ...

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

No villainous bounty yet hath ...

No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.

Cold indeed, and labor lost:

Cold indeed, and labor lost:
Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

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Let us, like merchants, show o...

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,
And think perchance they'll sell; if not,
The lustre of the better yet to show
Shall show the better.

The seasons change their manne...

The seasons change their manners, as the year
Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.

This blessГЁd plot, this earth...

This blessГЁd plot, this earth, this realm, this England
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
. . .
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

To England will I steal, and t...

To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.

That island of England breeds ...

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

A turn or two I'll walk
T...

A turn or two I'll walk
To still my beating mind.

O, I do not like that paying b...

O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat ...

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
If it be man's work, I'll do't.

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to...

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

Woe to that land that's govern...

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

Here was a Caesar! When comes ...

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

The commonwealth of Athens is ...

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Let me, if not by birth, have ...

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

Tis much when sceptres are in ...

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
But more when envy breeds unkind division:
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

I begin to find an idle and fo...

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

I would with such perfection g...

I would with such perfection govern, sir,
T'excel the golden age.