The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Ibid. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven Ibid. That in the captain 's but a choleric word. Ibid. Our compell'd sins. Stand more for number than for accompt. The miserable have no other medicine, Sc. 4. And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, Ibid. The cunning livery of hell. Ibid. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about lbid. The weariest and most loathed worldly life To what we fear of death. Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.1 Ibid. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Ibia. There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.2 Ibid. O, what may man within him hide, Sc. 2. Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.3 Act iv. Sc. 1. Every true man's apparel fits your thief. Sc. 2. We would, and we would not. Sc. 4. A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time. Act v. Sc. 1. the poem 8 This song occurs in Act v. Sc. 2 of Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother, with the following additional stanza: Hide, O, hide those hills of snow, Which thy frozen bosom bears, Are of those that April wears! But first set my poor heart free, They say, best men are moulded out of faults, The pleasing punishment that women bear. A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. Every why hath a wherefore.1 Ibid. Act i. Sc. 1. Act i. Sc. 1. Sc. 2. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, Let's go hand in hand, not one before another. He hath indeed better bettered expectation. A Act iii. Sc. 1. Act v. Sc. 1. Ibid. Ibid. Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. very valiant trencher-man. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. Ibid. Ibid. What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Ibid. There's a skirmish of wit between them. Ibid. The gentleman is not in your books. Ibid. Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? Ibid. Benedick the married man. Ibid. Ibid. He is of a very melancholy disposition. He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. As merry as the day is long. Act i. Sc. 1. Ibid. I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight. Ibid. 1 For every why he had a wherefore. - BUTLER: Hudibras, part i canto i. line 132. Speak low if you speak love. Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1. Friendship is constant in all other things. Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; And trust no agent. Ibid. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Ibid. Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new He was wont to speak plain and to the pur doublet. pose. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, Sits the wind in that corner? Sc. 3. Ibid. Ibid. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 1. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot,1 he is all mirth. Every one can master a grief but he that has it. Are you good men and true? Sc. 2. Ibid. Sc. 3. To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. The most senseless and fit man. 1 From the crown of his head to the sole of the foot. Ibid. Ibid. PLINY: Natu ral History, book vii. chap. xvii. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: The Honest Man's Fortune, act ii. sc. 2. MIDDLETON: A Mad World, etc. You shall comprehend all vagrom men. Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3 2 Watch. How if a' will not stand? Dogb. Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave. Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. Ibid. Ibid. If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. Ibid. The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. I know that Deformed. The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. Comparisons are odorous. Ibid. Sc. 5. If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. Ibid. A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out. Ibid. O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! Act iv. Sc. 1. O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! Ibid. I never tempted her with word too large, Ibid. I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames Ibid. |