“Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!”
Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 72.
Aeneis, Book I, lines 1–4.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
Act IV, scene I
All for Love (1678)
“O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!”
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), lines 56–57.
On "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us” by Ben Jonson, in Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry (1692 - 1697) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2615
“A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 38–39.
“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.”
Pt. I, lines 261-262.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
Palamon and Arcite, book ii, line 758.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Not only hating David, but the king.”
Pt. I, line 512.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Palamon and Arcite.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Under Mr. Milton's Picture (1688).
“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.
“And doomed to death, though fated not to die.”
Pt. I, line 8.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“For pity melts the mind to love.”
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 96.