Sublime

PROS. Look thou be true; do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i’ the blood: be more abstemious, Or else, good night your vow!

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped one out of the table.

Ben Jonson’s introduction to the printed version of his play The New Inn (1631), which offered the following rebuttal to those who had criticized it: ‘What did they come for, then? thou wilt aske me. I will as punctually answer: To see, and to bee seene. To make generall muster of themselves in their clothes of credit: and possesse the Stage, again