James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Middleton

A mad world, my masters.

How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days!

Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed; / But honesty once pawned is ne’er redeemed.

Nothing can be termed mine own but what I make my own by using well.

Nothing truly can be made mine own but what I make mine own by using well.