You're a lady who have outdone example
When I trespass in aught but duty and
respects of service may hopes of joy for
sake me,
By Camillo, in The White Devil (4.2.79-83), John Webster
in Folger MS V.a.87, f. 34v

For if there were Jews enough; so many Christians
would not turn Userers? If priests enough; one should not have
have six. Benefices? and if Gentlemen enough; so many early mushrooms, whose best growth sprang from a dunghill, should not aspire to gentility. Vittoria Coromb. Act. 3. Sc. 3.
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (3.3.41-45), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 18, f.5

that’s but the
superficies of lust that’s but the most w'omen have; yet why should
ladies blush to hear that nam’d, which they do not fear
to handle
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (1.2.p.15), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 81r

like an earnest bowler
He very passionately loans that’s but the way
He should have his bowl run towards.
By Camillo, in The White Devil (1.2.p.17), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 81r

It seems you are jealous: I’ll shew you the error of it by a familiar example: I have seen a pair of
spectacles fashioned with such perpective art, that lay
down but one twelve pence a* th’ board, ’twill appear as if there were twenty; now should you wear a pair of these spectacles, and see your wife tying her shoe , you
would imagine twenty hands were taking up of your wife’s clotlies, and this would put you into a horrible these spectacles, and see
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (1.2.p.19), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 81r

An excellent scholar one that hath a head
filled with calves brains without any sage in them.
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (1.2.p.20), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 81r

Women are
like curst dogs keeps them tied all day time
but they are let loose at midnight then they do most
good or most mischief.
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (1.2.p.20), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 81r

For to sow kisses , (mark what I say,) to kisses is to reap lechery and, 1 am ouie, a woman that
will endure kissing is half won.
By Lawyer, in The White Devil (3.2.p.51), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 81r

Plays.
as if a man should spit against the wind
The filth returns in's face.
By Vittoria, in The White Devil (3.2.p.60), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

There are a number of thy coat resemble
Your common post boys.
By Brachiano, in The White Devil (3.2.p.61), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

Yes, you have ravish'd justice
Forc'd her to do your pleasure.
By Vittoria, in The White Devil (3.2.p.65), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

be entered into the list of the
forty thousand pedlars in Poland.
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (3.2.p.65), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

Your comfortable words are like like honey : they
relish well in your mouth that's whole, but in mine that's wounded they go down as if the sting of the bee
were in them.
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (3.2.p.65), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

but your
noblemen are privileged from the rack and well may,
for a little thing would pull some of them a'pieces
afore they came to their arraignment.
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (3.2.p.65), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

You are deceived there are not Jews enough,
priests enough, nor gentlemen enough
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (3.2.p.65), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

women are like to burs
time, for Where their affection throws them there they'll
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (4.4.p.101), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

lovers oaths are like mariners' prayers
uttered in extremety
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (4.4.p.104), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

We lay their souls to pawn
to the devil for a little pleasure, and a woman makes
the bill of sale.
By Flamineo, in The White Devil (5.2. p.136), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

Alcestides objecting
that Euripides had onely in three daies composed three
verses, whereas himselfe had written throe hundredth
Thou telst truth quoth he but heres the difference,
thine shall onely bee read for three daies whereas mine
shall continue three ages.
By To the Reader, in The White Devil (To the Reader, p.7), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

I confesse I do not write with a goose quill
winged with two feathers.
By To the Reader, in The White Devil (To the Reader, p.7), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v

Open the mouth of hunger and not fill it?
By To the Reader, in The White Devil (To the Reader, p.), John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v