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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?

Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.

But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.