Page 196 John Selden. They that govern the most make the least noise. Syllables govern the world. Never king dropped out of the clouds. Never tell your resolution beforehand.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles. I doubted of this saw, till on a day I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles. As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Letter to Ben Jonson. See Burton, Quotation 80 .