"Pheer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ladies thus to church are gone, An honoured action to solemnise there; With greater joy will they return anon, Than Caesar did in Rome his laurel wear. Lord Policy hath Love unto his pheer; Lord Pomp hath Lucre to maintain his port; Lord Pleasure Conscience, to direct his sport. Usury is marked to be known; Dissimulation like a shadow fleets, And Simony is out of knowledge grown, And Fraud unfound in London, but by fits. Simplicity with Painful Penury sits; For Hospitality, ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley |
