Careful Words

strings (n.)

strings (v.)

Strange that a harp of thousand strings

Should keep in tune so long!

Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 19.

Yee have many strings to your bowe.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,

Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay!

Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,

Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

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

  Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,—there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. x. 38.

Yee have many strings to your bowe.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.