“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need- You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!”
“Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alikeFeeds beast as man.”
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”
“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”
“It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”
“I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughterand the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”