Friendship Is Made Fast By Interwoven Benefits.

Confidence In One's Self Is The Chief Nurse Of Magnanimity, Which Confidence, Notwithstanding, Doth Not Leave The Care Of Necessary Furniture For It; And Therefore, Of All The Grecians, Homer Doth Ever Make Achilles The Best Armed.

Those Lovers Scorn Whom That Love Doth Possess? Do They Call Virtue There Ungratefulness?

As In Labor, The More One Doth Exercise, The More One Is Enabled To Do, Strength Growing Upon Work; So With The Use Of Suffering, Men's Minds Get The Habit Of Suffering, And All Fears And Terrors Are Not To Them But As A Summons To Battle, Whereof They Know Beforehand They Shall Come Off Victorious.

So, Then, The Best Of The Historian Is Subject To The Poet; For Whatsoever Action Or Faction, Whatsoever Counsel, Policy, Or War-stratagem The Historian Is Bound To Recite, That May The Poet, If He List, With His Imitation Make His Own, Beautifying It Both For Further Teaching And More Delighting, As It Pleaseth Him; Having All, From Dante’s Heaven To His Hell, Under The Authority Of His Pen.

Laughter Almost Ever Cometh Of Things Most Disproportioned To Ourselves And Nature: Delight Hath A Joy In It Either Permanent Or Present; Laughter Hath Only A Scornful Tickling.