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His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

As good as a play.

A nail in the wound.

To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.

To have a smattering knowledge of anything.

To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake.

To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid , Be worse provided than a common archer?

Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Words writ in waters.

Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.