Let every man enjoy his whim;
What's he to me, or I to him.
CHURCHILL.
And whereas I may seem too smart or satyrical in some particular places, I do not at all repent me, as thinking what is said to such ill-deserving persons much too little.
THOMAS MACE.
—Play the fool with wits,
'Gainst fools be guarded, 'tis a certain rule
Wits are safe things; there's danger in a fool.
CHURCHILL.
And in this thought they find a kind of ease,
Bearing their own misfortune on the back
Of such as have before endured the like.
RICHARD II.
Our life indeed has bitterness enough
To change a loving nature into gall:
Experience sews coarse patches on the stuff
Whose texture was originally all
Smooth as the rose-leaf's, and whose hues were bright
As are the colours of the weeping cloud
When the sun smiles upon its tears.
MRS. LENOX CONYNGHAM.
Thus much we know, eternal bliss and pure,
By God's unfailing promise, is secure
To them who their appointed lot endure
Meekly, striving to fulfil,
In humble hopefulness, God's will.
MRS. LENOX CONYNGHAM.
I thowt how hard it is to denye
A ladye's preyer, wych after the entent
Of the poete is a myghty comaundement;
Wherfore me thoht as in this caas
That my wyt war lakkyd bettyr it was
That my wyl, and therfore to do
My ladyes preyer I assentyd to.
OSBERN BOKENAM.
Al peco de los años
lo eminente se rinde;
que à lo facil del tiempo
no ay conquista dificil.
CALDERON.
We only meet on earth
That we may know how sad it is to part:
And sad indeed it were, if in the heart
There were no store reserved against a dearth,
No calm Elysium for departed Mirth,
Haunted by gentle shadows of past pleasure,
Where the sweet folly, the light-footed measure,
And graver trifles of the shining hearth
Live in their own dear image.
HARTLEY COLERIDGE.