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Without addition, or diminishing,

As take from me thyfelf, and not me too.

Comedy of Errors, A.2, S. 2.

Since the heavens have fhap'd my body fo,

Let hell make crook'd my mind, to answer it.
I had no father, I am like no father:

I have no brother, I am like no brother:

And this word-love, which grey-beards call divine, Be refident in men like one another,

And not in me.

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 5, S. 6.

Love forfwore me in my mother's womb :
And, for I fhould not deal in her foft laws,
She did corrupt frail nature with fome bribe
To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub;
To make an envious mountain on my back,
Where fits deformity to mock my body;
And am I then a man to be belov'd?

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 3, S. 2.
She, whom all men praised, and whom myself,

Since I have loft, have lov'd, was in mine eye
The duft that did offend it.

All's well that ends well, A. 5, S. 3.

I know I love in vain, ftrive against hope;
Yet, in this captious and intenable fieve,
I ftill pour in the waters of my love,

And lack not to lofe ftill.

All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 3.

To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
Fall, when love please!— marry, to each but one!
All's well that ends well, A. 2, S. 3.

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marry, to each but one!] I cannot understand this pafany other fenfe than as a ludicrous exclamation, in confequence of Helena's wifh of one fair and virtuous mistress to each of the lords. If that be fo, it cannot belong to Helena; and might properly enough be given to Parolles.

TYRWHIT.
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This has no holding,

To fwear by him whom I protest to love,
That I will work against him.

All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 2.
Holy father; throw away that thought;-

Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bofom.

Measure for Measure, A. 1, S. 4.

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
From off the battlements of yonder tower;
Or walk in thievifh ways; or bid me lurk
Where ferpents are; chain me with roaring bears;
Or hide me nightly in a charnel house,

Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
And I will do it without fear or doubt,

To live an unftain'd wife to my fweet love.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 4, S. 1.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious ftreaks
Do lace the fevering clouds in yonder east:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tip-toe on the mifty mountains tops.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 3, S. 5

The entire fpeech belongs to Helena. "But one" means, with an exception to Bertram. She would infinuate, that love is not to give him a mistress, as fhe herself affumes love's power, and means to lay claim to Bertram. A. B.

I —this has no holding,

To fwear by him whom I proteft to love,

That I will work against him.] This paffage appears to me corrupt. She fwears not by him whom she loves, but by Jupiter. I believe we may read to wear to him. There is, fays fhe, no bolding, no confiftency to fwear to one that I love him, when I fwear it only to injure him. JOHNSON. Helena certainly fwears by Jupiter, and not to her lover, as Dr. Johnson supposes. I read,

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this has no holding,

"To fwear by him, and to protest I love
"Whom I will work against."

A. B.

Wilt thou be gone! it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly the fings on yon pomegranate tree :
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 3, S. 5.

O, my love! my wife!

Death, that hath fuck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's enfign yet
Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 5,
I beseech thee, youth,

Pull not another fin upon my head,
By urging me to fury:-O be gone!
By heaven, I love thee better than myself;
For I come hither arm'd against myself.

S. 3.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 5, S. 3.

Love's heralds fhould be thoughts, Which ten times fafter glide than the fun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills : Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-fwift Cupid wings.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 2, S. 5.

Doft thou love me? I know, thou wilt fay-Ay;
And I will take thy word; yet, if thou fwear'ft,
Thou mayst prove falfe; at lovers' perjuries,
They fay, Jove laughs.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 2, S. 2.

O brawling love! O loving hate!

O any thing, of nothing first created !

O heavy lightness! ferious vanity!

Misshapen chaos of well-feeming forms!

Feather of lead, bright fmoke, cold fire, fick health!

Still-waking fleep.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 1, S. 1.

Love

Love is a fmoke rais'd with the fume of fighs;
Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lover's eyes 1;
Being vex'd, a fea nourish'd with lover's tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,

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A choaking gall, and a preserving sweet.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 1, S. 1. If that the Dauphin there, thy princely fon, Can in this book of beauty read, I love, Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen : As the in beauty, education, blood, Holds hand with any princess of the world.

King John, A. 2, S. 2.

I have done penance for contemning love;
Whofe high imperious thoughts have punish'd me
With bitter fafts, with penitential groans,
With nightly tears, and daily heart-fore fighs.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 4.

What should it be, that he refpects in her,
But I can make refpective in myself,
If this fond love were not a blinded god?

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 4, S. 3.

This weak imprefs of love is as a figure
Trenched in ice; which with an hour's heat
Diffolves to water, and doth lofe his form.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 2.

Here is my hand for my true conftancy;
And when that hour o'er-flips me in the day,
Wherein I figh not, Julia, for thy fake,

Being purg'd, a fire fparkling in lover's eyes.] The author may mean, being purged of fmoke, but it is, perhaps, a meaning never given to the word in any other place. I would rather read, being urged, a fire fparkling. Being incited and inforced. To urge the fire is the technical term. JOHNSON. I do not believe that "purg'd" has any reference to Smoke. "Being purg'd," is being pure. Love, fays the poet, is for the most part as a smoke; but when pure, it is as a fire, &c.

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The next enfuing hour fome foul mifchance
Torment me for my love's forgetfulness!

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 2.

Hinder not my courfe :

I'll be as patient as a gentle stream,
And make a paftime of each weary ftep,
Till the last step have brought me to my love..
Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 7.

Now my love is thaw'd;

Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire,
Bears no impreffion of the thing it was.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 4.

I to myself am dearer than a friend;
For love is still more precious in itself:
And Silvia, witnefs heaven, that made her fair,
Shews Julia but a fwarthy Ethiope.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 6.

10, fweet-fuggesting love, if thou haft finn'd, Teach me, thy tempted fubject, to excufe it!

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 6.

Even as one heat another heat expels,

Or as one nail by ftrength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 4.
Love's a mighty lord,

And hath fo humbled me, as, I confess,

10, fweet-fuggefting love.] To fuggeft is to tempt, in our au thor's language. The fenfe is, O, tempting love, if thou haft influenced me to fin, teach me to excufe it. Dr. Warburton reads, If I have finn'd; but, I think, not only without neceffity, but with lefs elegance. JOHNSON. "Sweet-fuggefting" has fomething more than tempting in it. It means infpiring, or foul-infpiring. Befide, tempted occurs in the following line. We fhould furely read-If I have finn'd.

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