Speak low if you speak love. Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. 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 doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the pur 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. To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; to write and read comes by nature. The most senseless and fit man. Sc. 2. Ibid. Sc. 3. but Ibid. Ibid. 1 From the crown of his head to the sole of the foot. - PLINY: Natural 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 I never tempted her with word too large, I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames Ibid. Ibid Ibid. For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1. The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, Into the eye and prospect of his soul. Ibid. Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly. The eftest way. Flat burglary as ever was committed. Condemned into everlasting redemption. O, that he were here to write me down an ass! Sc. 2. Ibid. 1bid. Ibid. Ibid. A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. Ibid. Patch grief with proverbs. Men Act v. Sc. 1. Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Ibid. Charm ache with air, and agony with words. Ibid. "T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, Some of us will smart for it. Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1 Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Sc. 2. Sc. 3. Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. Ibid. Than those that walk and wot not what they are. 1bid. At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;1 Ibid. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. Ibid. A high hope for a low heaven. Ibid. And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. That unlettered small-knowing soul. Ibid. Ibid. A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. Ibid.. Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! Ibid. The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be found. The rational hind Costard. 1 For "mirth," White reads shews; Singer, shows. Sc. 2. Ibid. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. Love's Labour's Lost, Act i. Sc. 2. A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, Delivers in such apt and gracious words. Act ii. Sc. 1. Ibid. Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 1. The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. Ibid. To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. Ibid. A very beadle to a humorous sigh. Ibid. This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2. He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. Ibid. Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. Ibid. You two are book-men. Ibid. Dictynna, goodman Dull. Ibid. These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. Ibid. For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Sc. 3 |