Approved Valor Is Made Precious By Natural

Scoffing Cometh Not Of Wisdom.

Provision Is The Foundation Of Hospitality, And Thrift The Fuel Of Magnificence.

A Just Cause And A Zealous Defender Make An Imperious Resolution Cut Off The Tediousness Of Cautious Discussions.

A Brave Captain Is As A Root, Out Of Which, As Branches, The Courage Of His Soldiers Doth Spring.

But Words Came Halting Forth, Wanting Invention's Stay; Invention, Nature's Child, Fled Stepdame Study's Blows; And Others' Feet Still Seemed But Strangers In My Way. Thus, Great With Child To Speak, And Helpless In My Throes, Biting My Truant Pen, Beating Myself For Spite: "fool," Said My Muse To Me, "look In Thy Heart, And Write.