Echo, then, shall again
Tell her I follow,

(John Webster (c. 1580-1638), British writer, and William Rowley (c.1585?-1642?), British writer. The Thracian Wonder (attibuted to Webster and to Rowley) (l. 13-14). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)

Art thou gone in haste?
I'll not forsake thee!
Runn'st thou ne'er so fast,
I'll o'ertake thee!

(John Webster (c. 1580-1638), British writer, and William Rowley (c. 1585-1642?), British writer. The Thracian Wonder (attributed to Webster and to Rowley) (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)

But keepe the wolfe far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nailes he'll dig them up agen.

(John Webster (c. 1580-1638), British writer. The White Devil (l. 9-10). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)

A rape! a rape!...
Yes, you have ravish'd justice;
Forc'd her to do your pleasure.

(John Webster (1580-1625), British dramatist. Vittoria, in The White Devil, act 3, sc. 2.)

Your length in clay's now competent,
A long war disturbed your mind;

(John Webster (c. 1580-1638), British writer. The Duchess of Malfi (l. 6-7). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

(John Webster (1580-1625), British dramatist. The Duchess of Malfi, act 5, sc. 2.)

Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
Their death a hideous storm of terror.

(John Webster (c. 1580-1638), British writer. The Duchess of Malfi (l. 10-12). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

All the flowers of the spring
Meet to perfume our burying;
These have but their growing prime,
And man does flourish but his time.
Survey our progress from our birth?
We are set, we grow, we turn to earth

(John Webster (c. 1580-1638), British writer. The Devil's Law Case (l. 1-6). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces: they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.

(John Webster (1580-1625), British dramatist. repr. In The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. F.L. Lucas (1927). The Duchess, in The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc. 2, l. 232-4 (1623).)

I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.

(John Webster (1580-1625), British dramatist. repr. In The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. F.L. Lucas (1927). The Duchess, in The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc. 2, l. 219-20 (1623). See Swift on books.)