regiment quotes

In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behind He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore,O That celebrated, Cultivated Underrated Nobleman, The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Duke's song, The Gondoliers, act1.

For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The regiment's in 'ollow squarethey're hangin' himto- day; They've taken of his buttons off an'cut his stripes away, An'they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Danny Deever'.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

-John Knox
  From the title of his pamphlet, TheFirst Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of  Women.

Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

- Christopher Marlowe
  Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.1, act 2, sc.7.

But what are kings, when regiment isgone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1591 Edward II (published1594), act 5, sc.1.