After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents .n mangled forms. A FOOL'S LIBERTY OF SPEECH. I must have liberty Withall, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please; for so fools have: They most must laugh: And why, sir, must they so? Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. APOLOGY FOR SATIRE Why, who cries out on pride, That can therein tax any private party? Till that the very means do ebb? The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders? Who can come in, and say, that I mean her, That says his bravery* is not on my cost, There then; How, what then? Let me see wherein A TENDER PETITION. But whate'er you are, That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, * Finery. If ever been where bells have knoll❜d to church; THE SEVEN AGES. All the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players: And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho! sing, heigh, ho! unto the green holly: As friends remember'd* not Heigh, ho! sing, heigh, ho! &c. ACT III. A SHEPHERD'S PHILOSOPHY. I know, the more one sickens, the worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends:-That the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn: That good pasture makes fat sheep; and that a great cause of the night, is lack of the sun. That he, that hath learned no wit by nature or art, may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred. CHARACTER OF AN HONEST AND SIMPLE SHEPHERD Sir, I am a true labourer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is, to see my ewes graze, and my lambs suck. DESCRIPTION OF A LOVER. A lean cheek; which you have not; a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not; a beard neglected; which you have not:-but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having‡ in beard is a younger brother's revenue: Then your hose should be ungarter † A spirit averse to conversation + Estate. * Remembering. ed, your bonet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation. But you are no such man: you are rather point-device in your accoutrements; as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any other. REAL PASSION DISSEMBLED. Think not I love him, though I ask for him; 'Tis but a peevisht boy: yet he talks well; But what care I for words? yet words do well, When he that speaks them pleases those that hear, It is a pretty youth: not very pretty: But. sure, he's proud; and yet his pride becomes him: He'll make a proper man: The best thing in him He is not tall; yet for his years he's tall; Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the differ ence Betwixt the constant red, and mingled damask. There be some women, Silvius, had they marked him In parcels as I did, would have gone near To fall in love with him: but, for my part, I love him not, nor hate him not; and yet I have more cause to hate him than to love him: For what had he to do to chide at me? He said, mine eyes were black, and my hair black; And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me: I marvel, why I answer'd not again: But that's all one; omittance is no quittance. ACT IV. THE VARIETIES OF MELANCHOLY. I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; + Silly. *Over-exact. nor the courtiers, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice;* nor the lover's, which is all of these MARRIAGE ALTERS THE TEMPER OF BOTH SEXES. Say a day, without the ever: No, no, Orlando, men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more clamorous than a parrot against rain; more new-fangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires than a monkey; I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep. CUPID'S PARENTAGE. No, that same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of thought,† conceiv'd of spleen, and born of madness; that blind rascally boy, that abuses every one's eyes, because his own are out, let him be judge, how deep I am in love. OLIVER'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS DANGER WHEN SLEEPING. Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age, And high top bald with dry antiquity, A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, Lay sleeping on his back: about his neck A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself, Who with her head, nimble in threats, approach'd Seeing Orlando, it unlinked itself, A lioness, with udders all drawn dry, Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch, When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis The royal disposition of that beast Το prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. * Trifling. |