The Cavalier’s Oath (Quotations)

This is (I hope) a complete list of all the quotations – and some references made – in The Cavalier’s Oath, notable exceptions being the proverbs which Anders Jensen often uses. Where a quote or reference has been fully explained in the text it is not included here. Longer quotations I have only given the opening, or the first two lines of a song or poem. The quotations are listed in order of appearance.
Please note, unless otherwise stated, all Biblical quotations are taken from the King James Version.
Any mistakes in my attributions or missing quotations, please do let me know.

The ditches must be deep; the counterscarps
Narrow and steep; the walls made high and broad;
From The School Of War by Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine The Great Part II, Act Three, Scene Two

But that the heavens appoint I must obey.
From Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe, Act Five, Scene One.

I’ll sooner expect mercy from a usurer when my bond’s forfeited…
From The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street, Thomas Middleton (probably), Act One, Scene Four

And they cannot dig in the Floor of any Mansion-house which serves for the Habitation of Man… it is very necessary for the Weal publick, that the Habitation of Subjects be preserved and maintained.
Sir Edward Coke in a legal ruling known as The Case of the King’s Prerogative in Salt-peter, aka The Saltpetre Case (1606)

Let your women keep silence in the churches.
1 Corinthians 14:34

Their strength, weakness: their counsel, foolishness: and judgement, phrenesie
From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by John Knox

Who would trust slippery chance?
From Sejanus: His Fall by Ben Jonson Act Five, Scene Ten

…that the Ministers of the King who dig for Saltpetre, are bound to leave the Inheritance of the Subject in so good Plight as they found it.
Sir Edward Coke in a legal ruling known as The Case of the King’s Prerogative in Salt-peter, aka The Saltpetre Case (1606)

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:1

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Proverbs 13:21

They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy…
Jeremiah 6:23

Enquire not ye of mine act: for I will not declare it unto you, till the things be finished that I do.
Judith 8:34

Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, dark-working sorcerers that change the mind…
From Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Act One, Scene Two.

Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh
Exodus 18:10

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
From Macbeth by William Shakespeare Act Four, Scene One.

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck…
Jeremiah 30:8

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt…
Exodus 3:7

…him as Ehud was with Eglon.
Ehud ben‑Gera was sent to kill the Moabite King Eglon. Ehud told Eglon he had a secret message and the king agreed to meet him in private and secretly in his own chambers. Thereupon Ehud stabbed him and made his escape. Judges 3:12–30

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction…
Psalm 55:23

All the impostures, the prodigies, diseases and distempers, the knaveries of the time, we shall see all now.
From Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honors by Ben Jonson.

Hang out our banners on the outward walls; the cry is still ‘They come:’…
From Macbeth by William Shakespeare Act Five, Scene Five.

Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt with modest warrant.
From Coriolanus by William Shakespeare Act Three, Scene One.

Behold I see the haven nigh at hand, to which I meane my wearie course to bend.
From The Faerie Queene: Book 1, Canto 12 by Edmund Spenser

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Matthew 5:44

Glorious is my love, worth triumphs in her face
From Fortune Never Fails by John Donne

David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
1 Samuel 19:8

The love of thee has taken so strong a hold upon my heart and upon my soul…
From the Diwan of Hafiz, Gazel IX by Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī

Return’d so soon! Rather approach’d too late: the capon burns…
From Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Act One, Scene Two.

I joy, dear mother, when I view
Thy perfect lineaments, and hue
Both sweet and bright…
From The British Church by George Herbert

What pity ‘tis, so civil a young man should haunt this debauched company?
From Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson, Act Two, Scene One

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths…
From Richard III by William Shakespeare Act One, Scene One.

If the Head Himself deny, shall not the Family comply? — But lose not heart, nor droop amain, thy sinking Lord will rise again.
From Passio Discerpta XVI. To the failing Sun by George Herbert.

And Zadok begat Ahimaaz, and Ahimaaz begat Azariah…
1 Chronicles 6:8-10

Why do you stay in prison when the door stands wide open?
From The Community of the Spirit by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

He that knows great men’s secrets and proves slight, that man ne’er lives to see his beard turn white.
From The Revengers Tragedy by Thomas Middleton (probably), Act Four, Scene One.

Lawyers are good rapier and dagger men…
From The Phoenix by Thomas Middleton, Act Two, Scene Three

Set in thy tail a blaze…
From Phyllyp Sparowe by John Skelton

Fino alla morte non si sa qual è la sorte.
Until death comes we do not know what fate is.
Italian proverb

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 7:16

Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
From The Sun Rising by John Donne