If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle.
Who lined himself with hope,
Eating the air on promise of supply.
When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection.
An habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
Past and to come seems best; things present worst.
A poor lone woman.
I 'll tickle your catastrophe.
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week.
I do now remember the poor creature, small beer.
Let the end try the man.
Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
Aggravate your choler.
O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
With all appliances and means to boot.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?
Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,--which is an excellent thing.
Most forcible Feeble.
We have heard the chimes at midnight.
A man can die but once.
Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.
We are ready to try our fortunes
To the last man.
I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame."