"Quoting of authors is most for matter of fact; and then I cite them as I would produce a witness, sometimes for a free expression; and then I give the author his due, and gain myself praise for reading him." "Henry the Eighth made a law that all men might read the Scripture, except servants; but no woman except ladies and gentlewomen who had leisure and might ask somebody the meaning. The law was repealed in Edward Sixth's days." "Laymen have best interpreted the hard places in the Bible, such as Scaliger, Grotius, Salmasius, etc. The text serves only to guess by; we must satisfy ourselves fully out of the authors that lived about those times." "_Ceremony._ Ceremony keeps up all things. 'Tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, the spirit lost." "_Damnation._ To preach long, loud, and damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him to save us." "_Friends._ Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes, they were easiest to his feet." "_Language._ Words must be fitted to a man's mouth. 'Twas well said of the fellow that was to make a speech for my Lord Mayor: he desired to take measure of his lordship's mouth." "_Learning._ No man is wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man." "_Power._ Syllables govern the world." "_Reason._ The reason of a thing is not to be inquired after till you are sure the thing itself is so. We commonly are at 'What's the reason of it?' before we are sure of the thing. 'Twas an excellent question of my Lady Cotton, when Sir Robert Cotton was magnifying of a shoe which was Moses' or Noah's, and wondering at the strange shape and fashion of it,--'But, Mr. Cotton,' says she, 'are you sure it is a shoe?'" "_Religion._ Religion is like the fashion; one man wears his doublet slashed, another laced, another plain; but every man has a doublet. So every man has his religion. We differ about trimming." "We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth." WOMAN. SUNDAY, 29. Ever the feminine fades into mystery, Pales undistinguished into the powers of nature, There working with earnest force in silence, Bashful and beautiful in its reserves.