Careful Words

below (n.)

below (adv.)

I have been there, and still would go;

'T is like a little heaven below.

Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Divine Songs. Song xxviii.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,

Thy element's below.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4.