An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.