Tag: Henry VIII

  • March 16

    March 16

    Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
    Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends
    And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
    The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
    Like water from ye, never found again
    But where they mean to sink ye.

  • March 2

    March 2

    The odds is gone
    And there is nothing left remarkable
    Beneath the visiting moon.

  • March 1

    March 1

    Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage!
    You tallow-face!

  • February 28

    February 28

    They that my trust must grow to, live not here:
    They are, as all my other comforts, far hence
    In mine own country.

  • January 4

    January 4

    Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues
    We write in water.

  • December 30

    December 30

    He was a fool;
    For he would needs be virtuous…Learn this, brother,
    We live not to be grip’d by meaner persons.

  • November 14

    False Faces


    Ye have angels’ faces, but heaven knows your hearts.

    –Henry VIII,
    Act III, Scene i