This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not w…

- Sir John Davies

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or dis…

- Sir John Davies

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

- Sir John Davies

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

- Sir John Davies

Thou art true and honest as a dog.

- Sir John Davies

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

- Sir John Davies

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

- Sir John Davies

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

- Sir John Davies

Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.

- Sir John Davies