Good hope remains there at the bottom, as in Pandora's bottle; and not despair, as in the puncheon of the Danaids.

Remark well what I have said, and what manner of people they be whom I do invite; for, to the end that none be deceived, I, in imitation of Lucilius, who did protest that he wrote only to his own Tarentines and Consentines, have not pierced this vessel for any else but you honest men, who are drinkers of the first edition, and gouty blades of the highest degree.

The great dorophages, bribe-mongers, have on their hands occupation enough, and enough on the hooks for their venison.

There may they follow their prey; here is no garbage for them.

You pettifoggers, garblers, and masters of chicanery, speak not to me, I beseech you, in the name of, and for the reverence you bear to the four hips that engendered you and to the quickening peg which at that time conjoined them.