Tag: Histories

  • September 15

    September 15

    Come, wilt thou see me ride?
    And when I am on horseback, I will swear
    I love thee infinitely.

  • September 10

    September 10

    If thou canst love a fellow of this temper,
    whose face is not worth sun-burning,
    that never looks in his glass for love of any thing he sees there…

  • September 8

    September 8

    And thus I clothe my naked villany
    With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
    And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

  • September 1

    September 1

    Few love to hear the sins they love to act…
    Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
    He’s more secure to keep it shut than shown.

  • August 25

    August 25

    You are as a candle, the better part burnt out.

  • August 13

    August 13

    These fellows of infinite tongue,
    that can rhyme themselves into ladies’ favours,
    they do always reason themselves out again.

  • August 11

    August 11

    Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
    And cry ‘Content’ to that which grieves my heart,
    And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
    And frame my face to all occasions.
    I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall…