‘Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day,
When first from Schiraz’ walls I bent my way!’
Collins, Oriental Eclogues, II.
‘He hath a person and a smooth dispose
To be suspected; framed to make women false.’
Othello, Act I. Scene 3.
‘A manly man, to been an abbot able.’
Chaucer, Prologue, 167.
‘Miraturque novas frondes et non sua poma.’
Virgil, Georgics, II. 82.