He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn. |
Perhaps this may appear to you to be only an old wife's tale, which you will contemn. |
For I esteem those names of men so poor, Who could do mighty things, and could contemn Riches, though offered from the hand of kings. |
I contemn the world when I think on it, and myself when I translate it. |
Thy pompous delicacies I contemn, And count thy specious gifts no gifts, but guiles. |
Reward my temperance with some lawful favour, Though you contemn my person. |