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“I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.”

George Chapman All Fools

Act I, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

“Cornelia. What flowers are these?
Gazetta. The pansy this.
Cor. Oh, that's for lover's thoughts.”

George Chapman All Fools

Act II, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”

George Chapman All Fools

Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

“How blinde is pride! what eagles we are still
In matters that belong to other men,
What beetles in our own!”

George Chapman All Fools

Act IV, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

“Make ducks and drakes with shillings.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act I, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“The sea had soaked his heart through”

Homer's Odysses (1614), Book V, line 608; shipwrecked Odysseus washes up on Scheria.
Context: Then forth he came, his both knees falt'ring, both
His strong hands hanging down, and all with froth
His cheeks and nostrils flowing, voice and breath
Spent to all use, and down he sunk to death.
The sea had soaked his heart through; all his veins
His toils had rack'd t'a labouring woman's pains.
Dead weary was he.

“Danger (the spur of all great minds) is ever
The curb to your tame spirits.”

George Chapman The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613), Act V, scene i.

“Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed
From breasts heroic”

Book I, line 1, p. 1
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
Context: Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed
From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave
That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;
To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begun
Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.

“As when about the silver moon, when air is free from wind,
And stars shine clear; to whose sweet beams, high prospects, and the brows
Of all steep hills and pinnacles, thrust up themselves for shows;
And even the lowly valleys joy, to glitter in their sight,
When the unmeasured firmament bursts to disclose her light,
And all the signs in heaven are seen that glad the shepherd's heart.”

Book VIII, line 487, p. 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=ashjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA115&dq=%22As+when+about%22 <br class="br">The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)

“He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.”

George Chapman The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron

Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)

“Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.”

George Chapman The Gentleman Usher

The Gentleman Usher, Act IV, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Enough 's as good as a feast.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act III, scene ii.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“They're only truly great who are truly good.”

Revenge for Honour, Act V, scene ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“O Innocence, the sacred amulet
'Gainst all the poisons of infirmity;
Of all misfortune, injury, and death,
That makes a man in tune still in himself;
Free from the hell to be his own accuser,
Ever in quiet, endless joy enjoying;
No strife nor no sedition in his powers;
No motion in his will against his reason,
No thought 'gainst thought—
But (all parts in him, friendly and secure,
Fruitful of all best things in all worst seasons)
He can with every wish be in their plenty;
When the infectious guilt of one foul crime
Destroys the free content of all our time.”

George Chapman The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron

Act IV, scene i.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)

“He that to nought aspires, doth nothing need;
Who breaks no law is subject to no king.”

George Chapman The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613), Act IV, scene i.

“Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honour without deserving,
To other some, deserving without honour.”

George Chapman All Fools

Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

“I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act V, scene i
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”

Epilogue to Translations; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act III, scene ii.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“Our hopes, I see, resemble much the sun,
That rising and declining cast large shadows;
But when his beams are dressed in's midday brightness,
Yields none at all: when they are farthest from
Success, their guilt reflection does display
The largest shows of events fair and prosperous.”

Revenge for Honour (1654), Act II, scene i. Attributed, probably falsely, to Chapman. The play may have been written by Henry Glapthorne.
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