Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Epithalamion. Line 223. RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i. That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. Book i JOHN LYLY. Circa 1553-1601. Cupid and my Campaspe play'd He stakes his quiver,) bow, and arrows, Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how); O Love! has she done this to thee? Cupid and Campaspe. Act iii. Sc. 5. How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, Cupid and Campaspe. Act v. Sc. 1. Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. bee comely, but not costly.2 Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 39. pressed downe the more it spreadeth.3 Page 46. The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. Page 47. I cast before the Moone.1 Page 78. It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.5 6 Page 80. The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks." 8 Page 81. Page 84. He reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes. Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alemana; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae ?? 1 Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, Page 93. SHAKESPEARE: Cymbeline, act ii. sc. 3. 2 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 8 The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows. SPEARE: 1 Henry IV. act ii. sc. 4. 4 See Heywood, page 11. SHAKE 5 A brown study. SWIFT: Polite Conversation. 6 Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. Of the Training of Children. PLUTARCH: Stillicidi casus lapidem cavat (Continual dropping wears away a stone). LUCRETIUS: i. 314. 7 Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. 8 See Heywood, page 12. SHAKESPEARE: 3 Henry VI. act ii. sc. 1. 9 Jupiter himself was turned into a satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love. - BURTON: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. ii. mem. i. subs. 1. Lette me stande to the maine chance.1 Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 104. I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the It is a world to see.3 L Page 107. Page 116. There can no great smoke arise, but there must be A clere conscience is a sure carde.5 As lyke as one pease is to another. Euphues, page 207. Page 215. Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke." A comely olde man as busie as a bee. Page 252. Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre Page 279. Page 287. Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is Page 289. I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.8 Page 308. Page 314. SHAKESPEARE: 1 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1. BUTLER: Hudibras, part ii. canto ii. DRYDEN: Persius, satire vi. 2 See Heywood, page 12. 2 T is a world to see. — SHAKESPEARE: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1. 6 To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb. - BRETON: Court Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. Curate. 7 See Raleigh, page 25. - - HURDIS: The Village 8 The rose is fairest when 't is budding new. - SCOTT: Lady of the Lake, SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. Ibid. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. Ibid. High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.1 Arcadia. Book i. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." Many-headed multitude. My dear, my better half. Ibid. Book ii. Book iii. Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, The Revenger's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 1. Great thoughts come from the heart.- VAUVENARGUES: Maxim cxxvii. 2 He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.-FLETCHER: Love's Cure, act iii. sc. 3. 8 Many-headed multitude. - SHAKESPEARE: Coriolanus, act ii. sc. 3. This many-headed monster, Multitude. - DANIEL: History of the Civil War, book ii. st. 13. 4 Look, then, into thine heart and write. the Night. Prelude. LONGFELLOW: Voices of 6 Quoted by Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor. 6 Distilled damnation. - ROBERT HALL (in Gregory's "Life of Hall"). LORD BROOKE. 1554-1628. O wearisome condition of humanity! Mustapha. Act v. Sc. 4 And out of mind as soon as out of sight.1 Sonnet Iri GEORGE CHAPMAN. 1557-1634. None ever loved but at first sight they loved." The Blind Beggar of Alexandria. An ill weed grows apace.3 Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.* An Humorous Day's Mirth. Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare. I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Ibid. All Fools. Act i. Sc. 1. Causing a spring of virtues where he shines. Cornelia. What flowers are these? Cor. Oh, that's for lovers' thoughts." Fortune, the great commandress of the world, 1 See Thomas à Kempis, page 7. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. I. Act v. Sc. 1. 2 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? - MARLOWE: Hero and Leander. I saw and loved. - GIBBON: Memoirs, vol. i. p. 106. 3 See Heywood, page 13. 4 Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.- SHAKESPEARE: Two Gentlemen of Verona, act v. sc. 2. 5 There is pansies, that's for thoughts. - SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5. |