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Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site; Make former times shake hands with latter, And that which was before come after; But those that write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake; For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time.

And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent.

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Through thick and thin.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

Look before you ere you leap.

'Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' his bow, And burns for love and money too.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, As doctors cure by letting blood.

The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.

As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.

Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens, And other Members of the Court, Manage the Babylonish sport.

So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout Of petulant capricious sects, That maggots of corrupted texts, That first run all religion down, And after every swarm its own.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest.

As you sow y' are like to reap.

I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant, With cavaliers are cavaliers And with the saints, a saint.