You lovers, said his companion, are surprised by nothing, except first that your mistress should fancy you, and next, that they should fancy someone … - John Collier

Humphrey, dear, she said, we hear you've become famous. Is it true? It's true if you've heard it, he replied. That's what fame is.

She was complete in every particular, and all of the highest quality; she was a picture gallery, an anthology of the poets, a precipitation of all that has ever been dreamed of love: her goodly eyes like Saphyres shining bright, her forehead yvory white, her cheeks lyke apples which the sun hath rudded, her lips lyke cherryes charming men to bite, her brest lyke to a bowle of creame uncrudded, her paps lyke a lyllies budded, her snowie neck lyke to a marble towre; and all her body like a pallace fayre, ascending up, with many a stately stayre, to honours seat and chastities sweet bowre.

I reflected that where vanity of that sort is to be found on one side of a contract there is always hope on the other.