He is composed and framed of treachery,
And fled he is upon this villainy.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)