JOHN DAVIES

To give laws unto a people; to institute magistrates and officers over them; to punish and pardon malefactors; to have the sole authority of making war and peace, are the true marks of sovereignty.

Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

The churches are ruined and fallen down to the ground in all parts of the kingdom. There is no divine service, no christening of children, no receiving of the sacrament, no Christian meeting or assembly, not once a year; in a word, no more demonstration of religion than among the Tartars or cannibals.

To give laws unto a people; to institute magistrates and officers over them; to punish and pardon malefactors; to have the sole authority of making war and peace, are the true marks of sovereignty.

Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

Deeds are males, words females are.

Thou art true and honest as a dog.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?