The dibble* in earth to set one slip of them; This youth should say, 'twere well; and only therefore Desire to breed by me.-Here's flowers for you; The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, A GARLAND FOR YOUNG MEN. Cam. I should leave grazing, were I of your flock, And only live by gazing. Per. Out, alas! You'd be so lean, that blasts of January Would blow you through and through.-Now my fairest friend, I would, I had some flowers o' the spring, that might That come before the swallow dares, and take A LOVER'S COMMENDATION. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; * A tool to set plants. † Pluto. Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens. TRUE LOVE. He says, he loves my daughter: I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain, Who loves another best. PRESENTS LIGHTLY REGARDED BY REAL LOVERS. Pol. How now, fair shepherd? Your heart is full of something, that does take To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd Your lack of love, or bounty: you were straitedt Flo. Old sir, I know She prizes not such trifles as these are: The gifts, she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd That's bolted by the northern blasts twice o'er. *Bought, trafficked. † Put to difficulties. The sieve used to separate flour from bran is called a bolting-cloth. A FATHER THE BEST GUEST AT HIS SON'S Nuptials. Pol. Methinks, a father Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest That best becomes the table. Pray you, once more: Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid With age, and altering rheums? Can he speak? hear? Know man from man? dispute his own estate?* Flo. No, good sir: He has his health, and ampler strength, indeed, Pol. By my white beard, You offer him, if this be so, a wrong Something unfilial: Reason, my son Should choose himself a wife: but as good reason, RURAL SIMPLICITY. I was not much afeard. for once, or twice, LOVE CEMENTED BY PROSPERITY, BUT LOOSENED BY ADVERSITY. Prosperity's the very bond of love; Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. ACT V. WONDER, PROCEEDING FROM SUDDEN Joy. There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: A notable passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest Talk over his affairs. beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say, if the importance* were joy, or sorrow: but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. A STATUTE. What was he, that did make it?-See, my lord, Would you not deem, it breath'd? and that thos veins Masterly done: The very life seems warm upon her lip. Leon. The fixure of her eye has motion in'} Ast we are mock'd with art. Still, methinks There is an air comes from her; What fine chisel Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, For I will kiss her. A WIDOW COMPARED TO A TURTLE. I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some wither'd bow; and there *The thing imported. te. Though her eye be fixed, it seems to have moti a in it. + As if. BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE. PART II. KING JOHN. ACT I. NEW TITLES. GOOD den,* sir Richard,-God-a-mercy, fellow; For your conversion.‡ Now your traveller,— And talking of the Alps, and Appenines; It draws towards supper in conclusion so. * Good evening. Change of condition. Catechism. † Respectable. § My travelled fop. |