"Pray thee, take care, that takest my book in hand To read it well, that is, to understand.
"What look ye, I pray you shew what?
Terms painted with rhetorick fine?
Good husbandry seeketh not that,
Nor is't any meaning of mine."
"Those words in every tongue are best
Which do most properly expresse the thought;
For as if pictures, which should manifest,
The life, we say not that is fineliest wrought
Which fairest simply shows, but faire and like;
So words must sparks be of those fires they strike.”
Lord Brooke. Of Humane Learning.
"I have not found on what I may rely,
Unless it carry some Divinity
To make me confident; for all the glory
And all hopes fail, in things mere transitory.”
"In vain our labours are, whatsoever they be Unless God gives the Benedicite!"