So wise so young, they say, do never live long.1 Off with his head! 2 Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Sc. 4. Ibid. Sc. 7. Act iv. Sc. 2. Sc. 3. Ibid. Sc. 4. Tetchy and wayward. Ibid. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. Ibid. Thus far into the bowels of the land Act v. Sc. 2. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Ibid. Sc. 3. Ibid. Ibid. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, Ibid. 1 A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long. MIDDLETON: The Phoenix, act i. sc. 1. 2 Off with his head! so much for Buckingham!-CIBBER: Richard III. (altered), act iv. sc. 3. And I will stand the hazard of the die : I think there be six Richmonds in the field. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! Sc. 4. Ibid. Order gave each thing view. King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Ibid. Self-mettle tires him. Ibid. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. Ibid. 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. Sc. 2. The mirror of all courtesy. Act ii. Sc. 1. Sc. 2. This bold bad man.2 "T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Orpheus with his lute made trees, Sc. 3. And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. Act iii. Sc. 1. "T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. Sc. 2. 1 A weak invention of the enemy. - CIBBER: Richard III. (altered), act v. sc. 3. 2 See Spenser, page 27. And then to breakfast with What appetite you have. King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Press not a falling man too far! Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. A load would sink a navy. Ibid. And sleep in dull cold marble. Ibid. Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, I charge thee, fling away ambition: Ibid. Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age A royal train, believe me. An old man, broken with the storms of state, He gave his honours to the world again, So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! Ibid. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. Sc. 2. Ibid. Ibid. Of an unbounded stomach. Ibid. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues Ibid. 1 For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we write it in duste.. SIR THOMAS MORE: Richard III. and his miserable End. All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: Philaster, act v. sc. 3. L'injure se grave en métal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde. (An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water.) JEAN BERTAUT. Circa 1611. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. After my death I wish no other herald, To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. "T is a cruelty To load a falling man. You were ever good at sudden commendations. I come not To hear such flattery now, and in my presence. Those about her Ibid. Ibid. Act v. Sc. 2. Sc. 3.1 Ibid.1 Ibid.2 Ibid.1 From her shall read the perfect ways of honour. Sc. 5.2 Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, Ibid. A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. Ibid. I have had my labour for my travail.3 Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. 1 Act v. Sc. 2 in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White. 2 Act v. Sc. 4 in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White. 3 Labour for his pains. - EDWARD MOORE: The Boy and his Rainbow. Labour for their pains. CERVANTES: Don Quixote. The Author's Preface. -- |