Come to extoll their birth-rights above that
Which nature once intended.”—
Stephens’s Essayes and Characters, 1615.
“Faith, how many churches do you mean to build
Before you die? Six bells in every steeple,
And let them all go to the City tune,
Turn again, Whittington, and who they say
Grew rich, and let his land out for nine lives,
’Cause all came in by a cat.”—