Giue me leave; are not we fooles to weare our young feete to old stumps, when there dwells a cunning man in a Cave hereby who for a bunch of rootes, a bagge of nuts, or a bushell of crabs will tell us where thou shalt find thy maister, and which of our maisters shall win the wenche's favour? Io.

Good maister wizard, leave these murlemewes and tel Mopso plainly whether Gemulo my maister, that gentle shepheard, shall win the love of the faire shepheardesse, his flocke-keeper, or not; and Ile give ye a bottle of as good whey as ere ye laid lips to. Fris.

Then my maister shall not win the shepheardesse? Aram.

This youth hath power to win Eurymine.

It is thy sense: thou art not of her kin, But as my Ryvall com'ste my Love to win.

But Phoebus such disdain to me doth beare As hardly we shal win his graunt I feare.

Nor could that move me, To meete Death face to face, were my great worke Once perfected in Affrick by my sonne; I meane that generall sacrifice of Christians, Whose blood would wash the Temples of our gods And win them bow downe their immortall eyes Upon our offerings.

Not yet, Sir: Away with them, stay him; and if our Gods Can win this Christian Champion, now so stout, To fight upon their sides, give him reward; Our Gods will reach him praise.

Or what could famine, wounds or all th'extreames That still attend a Souldiers actions Could not destroy, one sillable from a Kings breath Can thus, thus easily win.

Say thou shouldst win the day, yet art thou lost, For ever lost; an everlasting slave

I'd risk for much, and should I fail to win it, I would not ever whimper at the blow.

I am not a skillful golfer, nor a plucky, But this about myself I proudly say When I win a hole by freaky stroke or lucky, I never claim I played the shot that way.

Ten thousand times the victor is he who fails to win, Who could have worn the conqueror's crown by stooping low in sin; Ten thousand times the braver is he who turns away And scorns to crush a weaker man that he may rule the day.

For it's how life is an' the way things are That you've got to face if you travel far; An' the storms will come an' the failures, too, An' plans go wrong spite of all you do; An' the only thing that will help you win, Is the grit of a man and a stern set chin.

And I'll spend my time contented till my sun sinks in the west; I will take what fortune sends me and the little I may win, And be happy on those evenings when a few good friends drop in.

Life's Single Standard There are a thousand ways to cheat and a thousand ways to sin; There are ways uncounted to lose the game, but there's only one way to win; And whether you live by the sweat of your brow or in luxury's garb you're dressed, You shall stand at last, when your race is run, to be judged by the single test.

There are a thousand ways to fail, but only one way to win!

Let Sinai's thunders aid us To guard our feet from sin; And Calvary's light inspire us The love of God to win.

I will fight a great battle which I will win with a loss of ten thousand men.

They will say: "Find us work and we will earn our bread and in due time win back the greatness that has been lost."

The indignation which would inspire this movement would not be altogether without justification, for it cannot be denied that both political parties have for many years regarded preparation for war and all that belongs to it as a minor matter, subordinate to the really far less important questions relying upon which each side has sought to win sufficient votes to secure a party majority.

We have now to ask ourselves first of all how it came about that Great Britain was able to win it, and afterwards whether it was awarded once for all or was merely a challenge cup to be held only so long as there should be no competitor.

In the Seven Years' War it was the Prussian army which won the victories on land, while small British forces were enabled by the help of the navy to win an Empire from France in Canada, and to lay the foundations of the British Empire in India.

But let us remember the distinction between a quarrel in which the main thing is to be in the right, and a fight in which the main thing is to win.

As I have said before, in the quarrel you must be in the right and in the fight you must win.