The Devil’s Command (Quotations)

This is (I hope) a complete list of all the quotations – and some references made – in The Devil’s Command. 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.
Any mistakes in my attributions or missing quotations, please do let me know.

Every soul’s alike a musical instrument, the faculties in all men equal strings, well or ill handled; and those sweet or harsh
From A Very Woman or The Prince of Tarent by Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, Act Four, Scene One.

I have a heart, Lady. A loving heart, a truly loving heart…
From The Mad Lover by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Act One, Scene One.

Perfect Diurnall
A Parliamentarian weekly news pamphlet, published in London

per verba de praesenti
By words of the present tense – speaking marriage vows

None shall die, whose heart has lived with the life love breathed into it
From the poems of Hafiz, translated by Gertrude Bell in The Garden of Heaven.

The men to be handsome yeomen or serving men, light timberd, and of comely shape
From The Souldiers Accidence by Gervase Markham

Hey! now the day dawis;
The jolly cock crawis…
From the poem, The Night is Near Gone by Alexander Montgomerie.

What sequel shall follow when pendugims meet together? Speak, Parrot, my sweet bird, and ye shall have a date…
From the poem, Speak, Parrot by John Skelton.

A wreathed garland of deserved praise, of praise deserved, unto thee I give.
From the poem, A Wreath by George Herbert

A horse of a strong & comely fashion, of great goodnesse, louing disposition, and of an infinite couragiousnesse.
From Cauelarice, or The English Horseman by Gervase Markham.

Forgive me, what I am now returned to, sense and judgement, is not the same rage and distraction presented lately to you…
From Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton, Act Four.

That always in such cases, ‘the heirs’ are words of limitation of the estate, not words of purchase.
The Rule in Shelley’s Case as reported by Lord Coke

It may be that what hath beene disputed, will be granted: but there is yet an objection which requireth solution.
From The Nature of Truth by Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke.

Without that light, what light remains in me? Thou art my life, my way, my light; in thee I live, I move, and by thy beams I see…
From Emblems – Part III, a poem by Francis Quarles

Write on my brow my fortune, let my bier be born by virgins that shall sing by course the truth of maids and perjuries of men
From The Maids Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Act Two.

Tout pour le mieux bien dire l’ose
Vient maleur qui fault soubtenir…
From a poem by Margaret of Austria

I would my sword had a close basket hilt to hold Wine, and the blade would make knives, for we shall have nothing but eating and drinking.
From A King and No King by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Act One, Scene One.

…it was indeed the lark and not the nightingale…
Referencing Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Act Three, Scene Five.

Wake now my love, awake; for it is time,
The Rosy Morne long since left Tithones bed…
From Epithalamion a poem by Edmund Spenser.

In progressu boreali,
Ut processi ab australi…
From Drunken Barnaby’s Four Journeys (Latin version) by Richard Braithwaite

In my progress, travelling northward,
Taking my farewell of the southward…
From Drunken Barnaby’s Four Journeys (English version) by Richard Braithwaite

generally, all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail.
From Of the True Greatness Of Kingdoms And Estates one of The Essays by Francis Bacon

it is certain that sedentary, and within-door arts, and delicate manufactures that require rather the finger than the arm, have, in their nature, a contrariety to a military disposition.
From Of the True Greatness Of Kingdoms And Estates one of The Essays by Francis Bacon

He is deceiv’d, and in his great deceit, he doth deceive the folly-guided hearts.
From the poem, The Wisedome Solomon Paraphrased by Thomas Middleton

Company with honesty
Is virtue vices to flee…
From the song Pastime with Good Company by King Henry VIII

Far or near there is no halting-place upon Love’s road
From the poems of Hafiz, translated by Gertrude Bell in The Garden of Heaven

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain…
From Elegy, a poem by Chidiock Tichborne.

Medicus curat, natura sanat
An old aphorism that means ‘the doctor treats the patient, but nature is the healer’.