A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times Measure for Measure, A. 3, S, 1. Traduc'd by ignorant tongues,-which neither know 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake Henry VIII. A. 1, S. 2. If our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Meafure for Meafure, A. 1, S.I. Is that temptation, that doth goad us on To fin in loving virtue. Meafure for Measure, A. 2, S. 2. Virtue he had, deferving to command: His brandish'd fword did blind men with his beams; I S. 2. Your Your virtues, gentle mafter, Áre fanctified and holy traitors to you. As you like it, A. 2, S. 3. Of late this duke Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece; But that the people praise her for her virtues. As you like it, A. 1, S. 2, The only foil of his fair virtue's glofs, Love's Labour Loft, A. 2, S. i, All his virtues, Not virtuously on his own part beheld,- Troilus and Creffida, A. 2, S. 3. Virtue, and that part of philofophy Taming of the Shrew, A. 1, S. 1. From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, All's well that ends well, A. 2, S. 3. You are more faucy with lords, and honourable perfonages, than the heraldry of your birth and virtue gives you commiffion. All's well that ends well, A. 2, S. 3. Any thing, that's mended, is but patch'd: virtue, that tranfgreffes, is but patch'd with fin; and fin, that amends, is but patch'd with virtue. Twelfth Night, A. 1, S. 5. Ff 2 The The charieft maid is prodigal enough, Hamlet, A. 1, S. 3. Forgive me this my For, in the fatnefs of these purfy times, Virtue itself of vice muft pardon beg; virtue : Yea, curb, and woo, for leave to do him good. Hamlet, A. 3, S. 4. O, throw away the worfer part of it, And live the purer with the other half. Hamlet, A. 3, S. 4. But virtue, as it never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a fhape of heaven; Will fate itself in a celeftial bed, And prey on garbage. Hamlet, A. 1, S. 5. Virtue is of fo little regard in thefe cofter-monger times, that true valour is turn'd bearherd: pregnancy is made a tapfter, and hath his quick wit wafted in giving reckonings. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 2. STEEVENS. Pregnancy" is fomething more than readiness. It means I Pregnancy.] Pregnancy is readiness. liveliness, great abilities. A. B. VOWS. It is the purpose that makes ftrong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold. Troilus and Creffida, A. 5, S. 3. 'Tis not the many oaths, that make the truth';' But the plain fingle vow, that is vow'd true. What is not holy, that we fwear not by But take the higheft to witness. All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 2. Your vows, to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh; and both as light as tales. Midsummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S, 2. Is all the counsel that we two have shar'd, Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2. Why should you think that I fhould woo in fcorn? Scorn and derifion never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, Midsummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2. Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; It is the purpofe.] The mad prophetefs fpeaks here with all the coolness and judgment of a skilful cafuift. JOHNSON. Dr. Johnfon is right. But was he to be told that reason is frequently found in madness? He might, indeed, have learnt it from our author: "O matter and impertinency mixt! See King Lear. Ff3 A. B. Let Let there be no honour, Where there is beauty; truth, where femblance; love, Where there's another man; the vows of women Of no more bondage be, to where they are made, Than they are to their virtues. Cymbeline, A. 2, S. 4. Men's vows are women's traitors! All good feeming, VOYAGE. As far as I fee, all the good our English A fit or two o' the face. Henry VIII. A, 1, S. 3. A fit or two o the face.] A fit of the face feems to be what we now term a grimace, an artificial cast of the countenance. JOHNSON. "A fit o' the face" feems rather to be a resemblance. He means that they had caught the manners of the French. It appears to be of the fame import as trick o' the face, which we now use, and which means nothing more than a likeness. A. B. W A R |