| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings. |
| Apparel | A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse. |
| Apparel | A winning wave, In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. |
| Bees | For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes. |
| Beggary | To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. |
| Content | Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. |
| Daffodils | When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me, Guesse I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed. |
| Discontent | Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. |
| Disease | Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. |
| Eating | 'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. |
| Eating | Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine. |
| End | It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. |
| Feet | Her pretty feet Like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep Did soon draw in agen. |
| Flies | I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. |
| Hell | Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. |
| Hell | Hell is paved with good samaritans. |
| Hell | Maybe this world is another planet's hell. |
| Investigation | Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. |
| Kisses | What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. |
| Labor | If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines. |
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