Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. Sir Philip Sidney
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them. 1 Like faire Venus Chaste. 2 Like great god Saturne faire. 3 Grasps as in water, the more she grasped the less she held. 4 A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. 5 Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them, but rather like sea-marks, to avoid the shipwreck of ignorant passengers. 6 As Juno mild. 7 Smooth as Pan. 8 Virtue, like the clear heavens, is without clouds. 9
