“The poorest service is repaid with thanks.”
“Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.”
“Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.”
“Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion”
“What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes”
“Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.”
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”
“Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor”
“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“The prize of all too precious you.”
“Every good servant does not all commands.”
“My heart is ever at your service.”
“Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.”