“We are oft to blame in this, -'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,and pios action we do sugar o'erthe devil himself.”

“Tis too much proved—that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.”

“I have no way and therefore want no eyesI stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.”

“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,Which we ascribe to Heaven.”

“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.”

“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil”

“Alas, the frailty is to blame, not weFor such as we are made of, such we be”