316. Tamen quære. (Yet ask.)

K. Rich. I have no need to beg.
Boling. Yet ask. (Rich. II. iv. 1.)

317. Well remembered.

Marry, well remembered! (Mer. Ven. ii. 8.)

Well thought upon. (R. III. i. 3, 344; Lear, v. 3, 251.)
(And 'If you know not me,' 1st Part.)

318. I arrest you thear.

I do arrest your words. (M. M. ii. 4, and L. L. L. ii. 1.)

319. I cannot think that.

I cannot think it. (R. III. ii. 2, and Tim. Ath. ii. 2, iii. 5.)
I could not think it. (Tim. Ath. ii. 2, iii. 3, and iii. 5.)

I can scarce think there's any. (Cor. v. 2.)

I did not think thou couldst have spoke so. (Per. iv. 6.)

I cannot believe that in her. (Oth. ii. 1.)

320. Discourse better.

Thu. How likes she my discourse?

Pro. Ill when you talk of war.

Thu. But well when I talk of love and peace.

Jul. But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.

(Tw. G. Ver. i. 1.)

Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere you flout old ends any further, examine your conscience. (M. Ado, i. 1.)

How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best o' wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none but parrots. (Mer. Ven. iii. 5.)

grace

321. I was thinking.

I was thinking. (All's W. iv. 5.)

I am thinking. (Tim. Ath. v. 1; Lear i. 2.)

322. I come to that.

Come to the matter. (Cymb. v. 5.)

Escal. Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose. Come me to what was done to her?

Clo. Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet

shall come to it. (M. M. ii. 1.)

323. That is just nothing.

That is nothing but words. (Com. Er. iii. 1.)

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing.

but you

Why these are very crotchets that he speaks. (M. V. i. 2.) Notes, notes, forsooth, and nothing. (Much Ado, ii. 3.) Thou talk'st of nothing. (R. Jul. i. 4.)

Thus he his special nothing ever prologues. (A. W. ii. 1.)
Prithee, no more, thou dost talk nothing to me.

"Tis nothing to our purpose. (Tw. N. Kin. v. 2.)
That's nothing. (Ib.)

324. Peradventure.

(Temp. ii. 1.)

Peradventure he brings good tidings. (Mer. Wiv. i. 1.)
Peradventure he tell you. (Ib.)

Peradventure he shall speak against me. (M. M. iii. 1.)

(Sixteen times in the plays of the second and third periods.)

Say, shall the current of our right roam on? (John, ii. 2.)

What shall I do? Say, what? (Temp. i. 2.)

How say you by that? (Ham. ii. 2.)

How say you by this change?

(Oth. i. 3.)

How fell you out? Say that.

(Lear ii. 2.) &c.

Folio 896.

327. Non est apud aram consultandum.-Erasm. Ad. p. 714. (Consultation should not go on before the altari.e. Deliberate before you begin a business, not in the middle of it. President Lincoln used to say, 'Do not stay to swop horses while you are crossing a stream.')

Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace!

Let's to the altar. .

Whilst a field should be despatch'd and fought,

You are disputing of your generals.

(1 Hen. VI. i. 1, and Mer. Ven. iii. 2, 1–10).

328. Eumenes litter. (Perhaps Bacon meant litterarum fautor (or) patronus,' as Eumenes, king of Pergamus, founded a library there which rivalled even that of Alexandria.)

329. Sorti Pater æquus utrique. (The Father (? Jupiter) is favourable to either destiny.)

It sometimes comes to pass that there is an equality in the charge or privation. . . . Sorti pater æquus utrique est (there is good either way.) (Colours of Good and Evil, vi.)

There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them how we will. (Ham. v. 2.)

There's special providence in the fall of a sparrow. (Ib.)

330. Est quæddam (sic) prodire tenus si non datur ultra. -Horace, Epist. i. 1, 32. (There is a point up to which one may proceed, if one may go no further.)

1 Cit. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. . . . 2 Cit. Would you proceed especially upon Caius Marcius? (Cor. i. 1.) We must proceed, as we do find the people. (Ib. v. 5.) Having thus far proceeded . . . . is't not meet That I did amplify my judgment in other conclusions ?

(Cymb. i. 6.)

How far I have proceeded,

Or how far further shall, is warranted

By a commission from the consistory. (Hen. VIII. ii. 4.)

331. Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis. -Ovid, Met. ii. 328. (Of which [chariot] though he lost his hold, yet it was a mighty enterprise he failed in.)

332. Conamur tenues grandia.-Hor. Od. i. 6, 9. (Pigmies, we giant themes essay; lit. we of mean [capacity] essay great things.)

We fools of nature . . . shake our disposition with
Thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls. (Ham. i. 4.)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Ib. i. 5.)

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my back than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as

I do, crawling between heaven and earth? (b. iii. 2.)

333. Tentantem majora fere præsentibus æquium (sic).- Hor. 1 Ep. xvii. 24. (Aspiring, yet content with present fate.)

334. Da facilem cursum atque audacibus annue ceptis. -Virg. Georg. i. 40. (Grant me an easy course, and favour my venturous enterprise.)

335. Neptunus ventis implevit vela secundis.-Virg. Æn. vii. 23. (With favouring breezes Neptune filled their sails.)

Now sits the wind fair, and we'll aboard. (Hen V. ii. 2.)
The ship is in her trim, the merry wind

1st Witch. In a sieve I'll thither sail.

2nd Witch. I'll give thee a wind. (Macb. i. 3.)

336. Crescent illæ, crescetis amores.-Virg. Ecl. x. 54. (They will grow-you my loves will grow.)

Is all the counsel that we two have shar'd,
The sister's vows, the hours that we have spent,
O, is it all forgot?

All school days' friendship, childhood, innocence
So we grew together,

Like to a double cherry seeming parted,

But yet an union in partition. (M. N. D. iii. 2.)

337. Et quæ nunc ratio est impetus ante fuit.-Ovid,
R. Am. 13. (What is now reason, originated in impulse.)
Violent love outran the pauser, reason. (Macb. ii. 3.)
To speak truth of Cæsar,

I have not known when his affections swayed
More than his reason. (Jul. Cæs. ii. 1.)

You cannot call it love; for at your age

The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble,

And waits upon the judgment. (Ham. iii. 4.)

If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions; but we have reason to cool our raging notions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this which you call love to be a sect or scion. (Oth. i. 3.)

And let your reason with your choler question,
What 'tis you are about. (Hen. VIII. i. 1.)

338. Aspice venturo lætentur ut omnia sæclo.-Virg. Eclog. iv. 52. (Behold, how all things rejoice at the approach of the age.)

But with the world' the time will bring on summer,
When briars shall have leaves as well as thorns,

And be as sweet as sharp. . . times revive us.

(All's Well, iv. 4.)

1 World in Collier's text; word in other editions.