Sir Walter Raleigh

Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.

No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?

If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.