«The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.»

«The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? / Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, / Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? / So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.»

«Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.»

«Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? / Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.»

«Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.»

«Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.»

«Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.»

«Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.»