Valuing of her; why, she-O, she is fallen Hath drops too few to wash her clean again. INNOCENCE DISCOVERED BY THE COUNTENANCE. A thousaud blushing apparitions start RESOLUTION. I know not: if they speak but truth of her, These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour The proudest of them shall well hear of it. Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, To quit me of them thoroughly. THE DESIRE OF BELOVED OBJECTS HEIGHTENED BY THEIR LOSS. For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Into his study of imagination; * While. † Over-rate. By. And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious hab Into the eye and prospect of his soul, TALKING BRAGGARTS. But manhood is melted into courtesies,* valour into compliment, and mén are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie, and swears it. ACT V. COUNSEL OF NO WEIGHT IN MISERY, I pray thee, cease thy counsel, But such a one whose wrongs doth suit with mine. Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine, But there is no such man: for, brother, men * Ceremony. Their counsel turns to passion, which before To be so moral, when he shall endure The like himself: therefore give me no counsel: SATIRE ON THE STOIC PHILOSOPHERS. I pray thee, peace: I will be flesh and blood; TALKING BRAGGARTS. Hold your content: What man! I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander, Go anticly, and shew outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst, And this is all. VILLAIN TO BE NOTED. Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; That when I note another man like him, I may avoid him. DAYBREAK. The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Poœbus, round about Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. 70 Taming of the Shrew. INDUCTION. HOUNDS. THY hounds shall make the welkin answer them, PAINTING. Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight Adonis painted by a running brook: And Cytherea all in sedges hid; Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, ACT I. WOMAN'S TONGUE. Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears? Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? That gives not half so great a blow to the ear, As will a chesnut in a farmer's fire? When the priest ACT III. A MAD WEDDING. Should ask-if Katherine should be his wife, The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff, That down fell priest and book, and book and priest. Now take them up, quoth he, if any list. Tra. What said the wench when he arose again? Gre. Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp'd and As if the vicar meant to cozen him. [swore, But, after many ceremonies done, He calls for wine:-A health, quoth he; as if But that his beard grew thin and hungerly, ACT IV. THE MIND ALONE VALUABLE. For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; Or is the adder better than the eel, ACT V. THE WIFE'S DUTY TO HER HUSBAND. Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow; And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, * It was the custom for the company present to drink wine immediately after the marriage ceremony. † Appeareth. |