Chase brave employment with a naked sword

Throughout the world.

George Herbert (1593-1632): The Church Porch.

No, 't is slander,

Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue

Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath

Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie

All corners of the world.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 4.

I 'll make thee glorious by my pen,

And famous by my sword.

Marquis Of Montrose (1612-1650): My Dear and only Love.

Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book xx. Line 461.

Full bravely hast thou fleshed

Thy maiden sword.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.

I 'll make thee glorious by my pen,

And famous by my sword.

Marquis Of Montrose (1612-1650): My Dear and only Love.

Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,

And takes away the use of it; and my sword,

Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,

Will not be drawn.

Philip Massinger (1584-1640): A New Way to pay Old Debts. Act v. Sc. 1.

The knight's bones are dust,

And his good sword rust;

His soul is with the saints, I trust.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Knight's Tomb.

Another's sword has laid him low,

Another's and another's;

And every hand that dealt the blow—

Ah me! it was a brother's!

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): O'Connor's Child. Stanza 10.

Why, then the world's mine oyster,

Which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873): Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Take away the sword;

States can be saved without it.

Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873): Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.

To arms! to arms! ye brave!

The avenging sword unsheathe!

March on! march on! all hearts resolved

On victory or death!

Joseph Rouget De L'Isle (1760-1836): The Marseilles Hymn.

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,

And asks no omen but his country's cause.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xii. Line 283.

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,

Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,

The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,

Become them with one half so good a grace

As mercy does.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.