List his discourse of war, and you shall hear

A fearful battle rendered you in music:

Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,

Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,

The air, a chartered libertine, is still,

And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,

To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences;

So that the air and practic part of life

Must be the mistress to this theoric: Which is a wonder, how his grace should glean it,

Since his addiction was to courses vain:

His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow;

His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports,

And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. SHAKSPEARE.

-it hath been all

in-all his study:

spend, to give, to want, to be undone.

SPENSER.