Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Byrd: Psalmes, Sonnets, etc. 1588.

My mind to me an empire is,

While grace affordeth health.

Robert Southwell (1560-1595): Loo Home.

Mens regnum bona possidet (A good mind possesses a kingdom).—Seneca: Thyestes, ii. 380.

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BISHOP STILL (JOHN).  1543-1607.

I cannot eat but little meat,

My stomach is not good;

But sure I think that I can drink