Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, William Davenant More Quotes by William Davenant More Quotes From William Davenant Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow William Davenant fate important doe Ambition is the mind's immodesty. William Davenant ambition mind What one cannot, another can. William Davenant ability All jealousy must be strangled in its birth. William Davenant gratitude birth Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven. William Davenant ocean prayer wise The assembled souls of all that men held wise. William Davenant soul wise men Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn! William Davenant stars light eye Honor is the moral conscience of the great. William Davenant moral army honor
