In the final chapter, Dante vows to write nothing further of Beatrice until he writes "concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman".
Perhaps Bishop Hoadly was right when he said (1717) in a sermon before the English King: "Whoever hath an ultimate authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them".
In the year 1390, more than six centuries ago, the poet John Gower — whose genes somehow escaped transmission to modern business cyclists — wrote, "It hath ben sene and felt full ofte/The harde time after the softe".
In 1610 Francis Bacon wrote: "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief".
Written by Thomas Jefferson and guided through the Virginia legislature by James Madison, the Statute affirmed that "Almighty God hath created the mind free" and "all men shall be free to profess... their opinions in matters of religion".
"Earth hath no sorrows," John Muir once wrote, "that earth cannot heal".
He later wrote that "it hath pleased God of his abundant goodness to reduce the house and Mannor of the name to the name againe".
Though Ashmole was "one of the earliest Freemasons, [and] appears from his writings to have been a zealous Rosicrucian", John Gadbury wrote that "Anthony Wood hath falsely called him a Rosicrucian, Whereas no man was further from fostring such follies".
Another of Fraser's concerns is Waad's report to Salisbury on 21 November: "Thomas Winter doth find his hand so strong as after dinner he will settle himself to write that he hath verbally declared to your Lordship adding what he shall remember" —or rather, what he was told to remember.
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast," wrote the English playwright William Congreve.
