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n These men carrying the stamp of one defect,
Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault. p. 31.

0 The very place puts toys of desperation,
Without more motive, into every brain,
That looks so many fathoms to the sea,
And hears it roar beneath. p. 33.

p Thus do we of wisdom and of reach,

With windlaces, and with assays of bias,

By indirections find directions out. p. 45. q In her excellent white bosom, these. p. 52. r If I had played the desk or table-book,

Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb. p. 53. S I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather. p. 59.

t There was, for a while, no

money bid for argument, unless the poet and the player went to cuffs in the question. p. 61.

U Ham. Do the boys carry it away?

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Ros. Ay, that they do, my lord, Hercules and his load too. p. 62.

For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only p. 64.

men.

w Your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the ring. p. 65.

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Who gives me the lie i' the throat, as deep as to the lungs? p. 70.

y And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. p. 77.

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The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers. p. 79.

I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing
Termagant; it out-herods Herod. p. 81.

Women's fear and love holds quantity,

In neither aught, or in extremity. p. 87.

Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers (if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me), with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir? p. 91.

For me to put him to his purgation would, perhaps, plunge him into more choler. p. 92.

Why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil? p. 94. ff They fool me to the top of my bent. p. 95. Let not ever

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The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom, p. 96.

The terms of our estate may not endure

Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
Out of his lunacies. p. 96.

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Your grace hath screened and stood between
Much heat and him. p. 101.

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Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,

Starts up, and stands on end. p. 105.

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His very madness, like some ore

Among a mineral of metals base,
Shows itself pure. p. 111.

How should I my true love know
From another one?

By his cockle hat and staff,

And his sandal shoon. p. 119.

mm King. How do you, pretty lady?

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Oph. Well, God 'ield you!

They say the owl was

a baker's daughter. p. 119.

How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!

O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs! p. 122.

Nature is fine in love; and where 'tis fine,

It sends some precious instance of itself

After the thing it loves.

p. 124.

pp Oph. You must sing-A-down, a-down, an you call him a-down-a. O, how the wheel becomes it!

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It is the false steward, that stole his master's daughter.

Laer. This nothing's more than matter. p. 125.

A document in madness: thoughts and remembrance fitted. p. 125.

The other motive,

Why to a public count I might not go,

Is the great love the general gender bear him:
Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,

Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
Convert his gyves to graces. p. 128.

A sister driven into desperate terms,—

Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
Stood challenger on mount of all the age
For her perfections. p. 129.

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He is the brooch, indeed, and gem of all the nation.

[p. 131. Like a spendthrift sigh, that hurts by easing. p. 132. No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize: Revenge should have no bounds. p. 133.

You may choose

A sword unbated, and in a pass of practice
Requite him for your father. p. 133.

Where it draws blood, no cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save from death. p. 133.

We must speak by the card, or equivocation will
undo us. p. 141.

Ham. I beseech you, remember

Osr. Nay, in good faith, for mine ease.

p. 152. His purse is empty already; all his golden words are

spent. p. 153.

This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.

[p. 155. Thus has he, and many more of the same bevy, only got the tune of the time, and outward habit of encounter; a kind of yesty collection which carries them through and through the most fanned and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trials, the bubbles are out. p. 155.

7. The following quotations may be proposed for textual criticism :

a The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead

Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets :

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As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands,
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. p. 9.
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are most select and generous chief in that. p. 27.
The dram of vile

Doth all the noble substance of a doubt

To his own scandal. p. 31.

d Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,

With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial. p. 37.

e The pang of disprized love. p. 76.

f Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. p. 85.

g I'll silence me even here. p. 101.

h And master the devil, or throw him out.

p. 107. iGo, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a stoup of liquor.

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8. In this play there are passages that may be compared respectively with the following:—

α 'Let's call the butler up, for he speaks Latin,

And that will daunt the devil.'

FLETCHER'S Night Walker, ii. 1.

bThy letters may be here, though thou art hence; Which, being writ to me, shall be delivered Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love.'

Two Gent. of Verona, iii. 1.

c 'He dyeth his means and his meaning into two colours. He allures, is not allured by his affections, for they are the brokers of his observation.'

OVERBURY'S Characters (The Dissembler).

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