69 quotes
Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.
Pandosto (1588)
Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,
Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.
Alcida (1617)
A noble mind disdains to hide his head,
And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.
Alphonsus (1590)
My God commands, whose power no power resists.
A Looking-Glass for London (1590)
Men when they lust can many fancies feign.
Perimedes (1588)
For as one star another far exceeds,
So souls in heaven are placèd by their deeds.
A Maiden's Dream (1591)
Obscurèd life sets down a type of bliss:
A mind content both crown and kingdom is.
Farewell to Folly (1591)
His shaft procur'd a sharp, yet sugar'd smart.
Orpharion (1599)
Hangs in th' uncertain balance of proud time.
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589)
Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
At last he hath leaped at a daisy, with a halter about his neck.
Black Book's Messenger (1592)
In vain it is to strive against the stream.
Alphonsus (1590)
For kings have often fears when they do sup,
Where shepherds dread no poison in their cup.
Mourning Garment (1590)
He look'd, he sigh'd, he courted with a kiss,
No better could the silly swad than this.
Perimedes (1588)
Two moving hills
Which, topp'd with pretty teats, discover down a vale
Wherein the God of Love may deign to sleep.
Morando (1587)
And in a sable mantle of disgrace
Sat he that is y-clepèd heaven's bright eye.
Never Too Late (1590)
Set a beggar on horseback, and they say he will never light.
Orpharion (1599)
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Menaphon (1589)
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
He that will not when he may,
When he desires shall surely purchase nay.
Alphonsus (1590)