Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn. ACT V. THE POWER OF IMAGINATION. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen SIMPLICITY AND DUTY. For never any thing can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. Hip. I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharg'd, And duty in his service perishing. MODEST DUTY ALWAYS ACCEPTABLE. Where I have come, great clerks have purposed I read as much, as from the rattling tongue * Are made of mere imagination. TIME. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. NIGHT. Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, But now I am return'd, and that war-thoughts Claud. How sweetly do you minister to love, That know love's grief by his complexion ! *Overcome. But lest my liking might too sudden seem, I would have salv'd it with a longer treatise. D. Pedro. What need the bridge much broader than The fairest grant is the necessity: [the flood? Look, what will serve, is fit: 'tis once,* thou lov'st; And I will fit thee with the remedy. I know we shall have revelling to-night: I will assume thy part in some disguise, And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart. ACT II. FRIENDSHIP IN LOVE. Friendship is constant in all other things, Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, MERIT ALWAYS MODEST. It is the witness still of excellency, To put a strange face on his own perfection. BENEDICT THE BACHELOR'S RECANTATION. This can be no trick: the conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady; it seems her affections have their full bent. Love me! why it must be requited. I hear how I am censured: they say, I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive the love come from her; they say too, that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry:-I must not seem proud:-happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending. They say the Seriously carried on. * Once for all. † Passion. lady is fair; 'tis a truth, I can bear them witness: and virtuous; 'tis so, I cannot reprove it: and wise, but for loving me;-By my troth, it is no addition to her wit; nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her.-I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:-but doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No: the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.—Here comes Beatrice: by this day, she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in her. ACT III. FAVOURITES COMPARED TO HONEY-SUCKLES. Bid her steal into the pleached bower, A SCORNFUL AND SATIRICAL BEAUTY. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, All matter else seems weak: she cannot love, I never yet saw `man, How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featur'd, * Undervaluing. She'd swear the gentleman should be her sister; If speaking, why, a vane blown with all wind: ACT IV. DISSIMULATION. O, what authority and show of truth A FATHER LAMENTING HIS DAUGHTER'S INFAMY. Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?† O, one too much by thee? Why had I one? *Lascivious. † Disposition of things. + Sullied. |