My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;- Coral is far more red than her lips' red;- If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;- If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.- I have seen roses damasked, red and white,- But no such roses see I in her cheeks;- And in some perfumes is there more delight- Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.- I love to hear her speak, yet well I know- That music hath a far more pleasing sound;- I grant I never saw a goddess go;- My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.- And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare- As any she belied with false compare.-
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this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.

this isnt an english question.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.