"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."

"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."

"Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other …"

"may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares the…"

"Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be si…"

"As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are b…"

"Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing b…"