1608-1661.
Holy State. Book ii. Ch. 20. The Good Sea-captain.
But our captain counts the image of God, nevertheless his image cut in ebony, as if done in ivory.
Book iii. Ch. 12. Of Natural Fools.
Their heads sometimes so little, that there is no more room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.
Book iii. Ch. 22. Of Marriage.
They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.
Andronicus. Ad. fin. 1.
Often the cockloft is empty, in those which
Nature hath built many stories high.