Stephen Gosson

"He is forced to go whom the devil drives."

"The Syrens song is the Saylers wrack."

"Hyena speakes like a friend, and devoures like a Foe."

"A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all."

"Pleasure is a sweet tickling of sense, with a present joy."

"Poets are the whetstones of wit."

"He that readeth good writers, and pickes out their flowers for his owne nose, is lyke a foole."

"He that goes to sea, must smel of the ship; and he that sayles into Poets wil savour of Pitch."

"The same water that drives the mill, decayeth it."

"Cedant arma togæ, concedat laurea linguæ."

"The Harpies have Virgins faces, and vultures Talentes."

"The Woolf jettes in Weathers felles."