But, sure, he's proud; and yet his pride becomes him : Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference ACT IV. THE VARIETIES OF MELANCHOLY. I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice *; nor the lover's, which is all these. MARRIAGE ALTERS THE TEMPER OF BOTH SEXES. Say a day, without the ever: No, no, Orlando, men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more clamorous than a parrot against rain; more new-fangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires than a monkey; I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, an * Trifling. I will do that when you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a byen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep. CUPID'S PARENTAGE. No, that same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of thought*, conceived of spleen, and born of madness; that blind rascally boy, that abuses every one's eyes, because his own are out, let him be judge, how deep I am in love. OLIVER'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS DANGER WHEN Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age, And high top bald with dry antiquity, A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself, Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch, To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. ACT V. LOVE. Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of sighs and tears; It is to be all made of faith and service; It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, * Melancholy. THERE'S COMEDY OF ERRORS. ACT II. MAN'S PREEMINENCE. HERE'S nothing, situate under heaven's eye, PATIENCE EASIER TAUGHT THAN PRACTISED. Patience, unmov'd, no marvel though she pause; They can be meek, that have no other cause. A wretched sonl, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry; But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. DEFAMATION. I see, the jewel, best enameled, Will lose his beauty; and though gold 'bides still, Wear gold and so no man, that hath a name, JEALOUSY. Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange, and frown; Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects, I am not Adriana, nor thy wife. The time was once, when thou unurg'd wouldst vow That never words were music to thine ear, That never object pleasing in thine eye, That never touch well-welcome to thy hand, That never meat sweet-savour'd in thy taste, SLANDER. For slander lives upon succession; For ever hous'd, where it once gets possession. ACT V. A WOMAN'S JEALOUSY MORE DEADLY THAN POISON. Thou say'st, his meat was sanc'd with thy upbraidings ; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness? Thou say'st, his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls; (Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair); DESCRIPTION OF A BEGGARLY FORTUNETELLER. A hungry lean-fac'd villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A threadbare juggler, and a fortuneteller ; OLD AGE. Though now this grained face of mine be hid * Furrowed, lined. My wasting lamp some fading glimmer left, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. BRAVE ACT I. SELF-DENIAL. conquerors!-for so you are, That war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires. VANITY OF PLEASURE. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. ON STUDY. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. FROST. * An envious sneaping frost, That bites the first-born infants of the spring. A CONCEITED COURTIER. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, • Nipping. |