He Whom Passion Rules, Is Bent To

It Is Cruelty In War That Buyeth Conquest.

To The Disgrace Of Men It Is Seen That There Are Women Both More Wise To Judge What Evil Is Expected, And More Constant To Bear It When It Happens.

Every Base Occupation Makes One Sharp In Its Practice, And Dull In Every Other.

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.

Plato Found Fault That The Poets Of His Time Filled The World With Wrong Opinions Of The Gods, Making Light Tales Of That Unspotted Essence, And Therefore Would Not Have The Youth Depraved With Such Opinions.