From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take A LOVER'S COMMENDATION. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; To sing them too: When you do dance, I wish you So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, TRUE LOVE. He says, he loves my daughter: I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain, Who loves another best. PRESENTS LIGHTLY REGARDED BY REAL LOVERS. Pol. How now, fair shepherd? Your heart is full of something, that does take Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young, And handed love, as you do, I was wont * Pluto. To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd Your lack of love, or bounty: you were straited † Flo. Old sir, I know The gifts, she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd A FATHER THE BEST GUEST AT HIS SON'S NUPTIALS. Pol. Methinks, a father Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest That best becomes the table. Pray you, once more: Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid With age, and altering rheums? Can he speak? hear? Know man from man? dispute his own estate§? Lies he not bedrid? and again does nothing, But what he did being childish? Flo. No, good sir: He has his health, and ampler strength, indeed, Than most have of his age. Pol. By my white beard, You offer him, if this be so, a wrong Something unfilial: Reason, my son, Should choose himself a wife; but as good reason, *Bought, trafficked. + Put to difficulties. Talk over his affairs. The sieve used to separate flour from bran is called a bolting-cloth. But fair posterity), should hold some counsel RURAL SIMPLICITY.. I was not much afeard: for once, or twice, I was about to speak; and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court, Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike. LOVE CEMENTED BY PROSPERITY, BUT LOOSENED BY ADVERSITY. Prosperity's the very bond of love; Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together ACT V. WONDER PROCEEDING FROM SUDDEN JOY. There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture: they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: A notable passion of wonder appear'd in them: but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say, if the importance were joy, or sorrow: but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. * A STATUE. What was he, that did make it?-See, my lord, Would you not deem, it breath'd? and that those veins Did verily bear blood? Pol. Masterly done: The very life seems warm upon her lip. Leon. The fixure of her eye has motion in't t As we are mock'd with art. The thing imported. +i. e. Though her eye be fixed, it seems to have motion in it. As if. |