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In woods, in waues, in warres doth honour dwell, And will be found with petill and with paine: Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell Vnto her happie mansion attaine, Before her gate hie God did sweat ordaine, And wakefull watches euer to abide. Ed. Spencer.
Honour is purchas'de by the deeds we doo. Ch. Marlowe.
—Honour is not wonne Vntill some honourable deed be donne. Idem.
Danger bids seeke the softest way one way. But what saith honour? honour saith not so. Neuer retire with shame; this honour saith: The worst that can befall one, is but death. S. I. Harr.
In braue pursuit of honourable deed, There is I know not what great difference Betweene the vulgar and the common seed, Which vnto things of valerous pretence Seemes to be borne by natiue influence: As feates of armes, and loue to entertaine, But chiefly skill to ride, doth seeme a science, Proper to gentle blood; some others faine. To manage steed. &c. Ed. Spencer.
—Euer great imployment for the great, Quickens the bloud, and honour doth beget. S. Daniell.
—Promotion is a puffe, These worldly honors are but shades of sweete: Who seeke too much before they get enough, Before they meet the meane, with death they meete. With death they meete the hauen of all desire, Where will must wa••ne, and pride cannot aspire. D. Lodge.
Honour a thing without vs, not our owne. S. D.
What doth auaile to haue a princely place, A name of honour, and an high degree: To come by kindred of a noble race, Except we princely worthy noble bee, The fruite declares the goodnesse of the tree. Do brag no more of birth or linage than, Sith vertue, grace, and manners make the man. M. of M.
Search all thy bookes, and thou shalt finde therein, That honour is more hard to hold then win. G. Gascoigne.
Defeated honour neuer more is to be got againe. W. Warner.
—Vile is honour, and a little vaine, The which true worth and danger do not gaine. S. Daniell.
Vertue can beare what can on vertue fall. Who cheapneth honour must not stand on price. M. Drayton.
It most behoues the honourable race Of mightie peeres, true wisedome to sustaine: And with their noble countenance to grace The learned forheads without gifts or gaine. Or rather learnd themselues behoues to bee, That is the garland of nobilitie. Ed. Spencer.
—If that honour haue one minutes staine, An hundred yeares scant can it cleanse againe. S. I. H. Transl.
A shame to fetch our long discent from kings,
And from great Ioue deriue our pedigree: The braue atchiements of an hundred things, Breathing vaine boasts the world to terrifie, If we our selues do blot with infamie. And staine the right and honour that is theirs, Men cannot leaue their vertues to their heires. M. Drayton.
Honour is grounded on the tickle yce. The purest lawne most apt for euery spot. Idem.
Honors shade, thrusts honors substance from his place. I. Marston.
Honour by due right is vertues hire. Th. Watson.
Honours without imployment of estate, Are like to sun-beames without heate or light: A noble man and not a magistrate Shines halfe eclipsed in his clearest bright. Ioyne heauenly gifts to earthly, light to light. Let these great excellencies make a truce, Fortune shall need no wheele-wright for her vse. Th. Storer.
Great is the choise that growes in youthfull minde, When honour falles at variance with affection: Nor could it yet be knowne or well definde, Which passion keeps the other in subiection. Both do allure, both doth the iudgements blinde, Both do corrupt the heart with strong infection. Yet loe sometimes these hurts procure our weale, Euen as one poyson doth another heale. S. I. Harr. Transl.
The fiery sparkling precious Chrysolite Spangled with gold, doth most transplendent shine: The pearle grac'd by the ring, the ring by it, The one, the others beautie doth refine: And both together beauties do combine. The iewell decks the golden haire that weares it, Honour decks learning, that with honour reares it. Ch. Fitz.
The inward touch that wounded honour beares, Rests closely ranckling, and can find no ease, Till death of one side cure this great disease. S. Daniell.