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There may as well be amity and life

'Tween fnow and fire, as treafon and my love. Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2.

Ten times fafter Venus' pigeons fly

To feal love's bonds new made, than they are wont, To keep obliged faith unforfeited!

Merchant of Venice, A. 2, S. 6.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rain thy joy, fcant this excess.
I feel too much thy bleffing, make it less.

Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2.
Now he goes,

With no less presence, but with much more love,
Than young Alcides, when he did redeem
The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
To the fea-monfter. Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2.
I am undone; there is no living, none,
If Bertram be away. It were all one,
That I fhould love a bright particular star,
And think to wed it, he is fo above me.

All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 1.
Fair foul,

In your fine frame hath love no quality?
If the quick fire of youth light not your mind,
You are no maiden, but a monument.

All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 2.

I am ashamed, that women are so fimple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace;
Or feek for rule, fupremacy, or sway,

When they are bound to ferve, love, and obey.
Taming of the Shrew, A. 5, S. 2.

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With no lefs prefence.] With the fame dignity of mien.

JOHNSON.

I think it would be better to read prescience, i. e. no lefs confi. dent of fuccess.

A. B.

Never durft poet touch a pen to write,
Until his ink were temper'd with love's fighs;
O, then his lines would ravish favage ears,
And plant in tyrants mild humility.

Love's Labour Loft, A. 4, S. 3•

Love, firft learned in a lady's eyes,

Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But with the motion of all elements,

Courses as swift as thought in every power.

Love's Labour Loft, A. 4, S. 3.

What? what? I love! I fue! I feek a wife!
A woman, that is like a German clock,
Still a repairing; ever out of frame;
And never going aright, being a watch,
But being watch'd that it may ftill

drum! for Affift me, am fure, I

go right? Love's Labour Loft, A. 3, S. 1. Adieu, valour! rust, rapier! be ftill, your manager is in love; yea, he loveth. fome extemporal god of rhime, for, I fhall turn fonnetteer. Love's Labour Loft, A. 1, S. 2. Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus grofs in taste. As fweet and musical,

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As bright Apollo's lute, ftrung with his hair;

And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowfy with the harmony.

Love's Labour Loft, A. 4, S. 3.

And, when Love Speaks, the voice of all the gods

Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.] All the editions agree in reading as above, and the commentators have endeavoured to explain it. But why the voice of love should make heaven drowy, I do not rightly understand. It may very naturally be supposed to have a totally different effect. We fhould furely read,

"And, when Love fpeaks, the voice of all the gods "Wakes drowsy heaven with the harmony." i.. Heaven inftantly becomes enlivened by it-all at once is harmony. It is a found to "ravish all the gods!" &c.

A. B.

For

For wifdom's fake, a word that all men love;
Or for love's fake, a word that loves all men ;
Or for men's fake, the authors of these women;
Or women's fake, by whom we men are men;
Let us once lose our oaths, to find ourselves.

Love's Labour Loft, A. 4, S. 3.

Love is full of unbefitted ftrains;

All wanton as a child, skipping, and vain;
Form'd by the eye, and, therefore, like the eye,
Full of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms.

Love's Labour Loft, A. 5, S. 2.

If frofts, and fafts, hard lodging, and thin weeds,
Nip not the gaudy bloffoms of your love,
Then at the expiration of the year,

S.2.

Come challenge me. Love's Labour Loft, A. 5, S. 2.

Tell this youth what 'tis to love.

It is to be made all of fighs and tears ;

It is to be all made of faith and fervice;

It is to be all made of fantasy,

All made of paffion, and all made of wishes.

As you like it, A. 5, S. 2.

That fame wicked baftard of Venus, that was begot of thought, conceived of fpleen, and born of madness; that blind rafcally boy, that abuses every one's eyes, because his own are out, let him judge, how deep I am in love. As you like it, A. 4, S. 1.

There is a man haunts the foreft, that abuses our young plants with carving Rofalind on their barks; if I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give him fome good counfel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love upon him.

As you

like it, A. 3, S. 2. He that will divide a minute into a thoufand parts, and break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of love, it may be said of him,

that

that Cupid hath clapt him o' the fhoulder; but I warrant him heart-whole. As you like it, A. 4, S. 1.

Your hofe should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unbanded, your fleeve unbuttoned, your fhoe untied, and every thing about you demonftrating a careless defolation. But you are no fuch man; you are rather point-device in your accoutrements; as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any other.

It is as eafy to count propofitions of a lover.

As you like it, A. 3, S. 2.

atomies, as to refolve the As you like it, A. 3, S. 2. but fay not fo In bitterness: the common executioner,

Say, that you love me not;

Whose heart the accustom'd fight of death makes hard,

Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck,

But first begs pardon.

As you like it, A. 3, S. 5.

O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be founded; my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.

As you like it, A. 4, S. 1.

Me believe it? you may as foon make her that you love believe it; which, I warrant, fhe is apter to do, than to confess she does; that is one of the points in the which women still give the lie to their confciences. As you like it, A. 3, S. 2.

If ever (as that ever may be near)
You meet in fome fresh cheek the
power of fancy';
Then shall you know the wounds invisible
That love's keen arrows make.

As you like it, A. 3, S. 5.

power of fancy.] Fancy is here ufed for love.

JOHNSON.

I rather think that fancy, in this place, is thought, deep reflec

tion.

I

A. B.

I have

I have neither the fcholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the mufician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the foldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politick; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these. As you like it, A. 4, S. I.

Think not I love him, though I ask for him ;
'Tis but a peevish boy :-yet he talks well;-
But what care I for words? yet words do well,
When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
As you like it, A. 3, S. 5.

Mistress, know yourself, down on your knees,
And thank heaven, fafting, for a good man's love:
For I must tell you friendly in your ear,

Sell when you can; you are not for all markets.

As you like it, A. 3, S. 5.

The oath of a lover is no ftronger than the word of a tapfter; they are both the confirmers of false reckon

ings.

As you like it, A. 3,

Then, the lover;

Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad

Made to his mistress' eye-brow.

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou haft not lov'd.

S. 4.

As you like it,

like it, A. 2, S. 7.

As you like it, A. 2, S. 4.

As you like it, A. 2, S. 4.

If thou haft not fat, as I do now,

Wearying thy hearer in thy mistrefs' praise,
Thou haft not lov'd.

If thou haft not broke from company,
Abruptly, as my paffion now makes me,
Thou haft not lov'd.

As you like it, A. 2, S. 4.
Know, my love, as easy mayst thou fall
A drop of water in the breaking gulph,
And take unmingled thence that drop again,

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