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Stones

in a Necklace

Rarity

Christ

mas

THE WORLD'S WAYS

WHE

FEAST DAYS

'HEREFORE are feasts so solemn and
so rare,

Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.

Sonnet LII.

IF all the year were playing holidays,

To sport would be as tedious as to work; For when they seldom come, they wish'd for

come,

And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
The First Part of King Henry IV. Act I, Sc. 2.

So comes

OME

say that ever 'gainst that season

Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,

The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets
strike,

No fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Hamlet. Act I, Sc. 2.

FEASTING

SM

MALL cheer, and great welcome, makes
merry feast.

THE

Comedy of Errors. Act III, Sc. I.

`HE appurtenance of welcome is fashion
and ceremony.

AY, my lords,

ΝΑ

Hamlet. Act II, Sc. 2.

Ceremony was but devis'd at first

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow wel

comes,

Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs
Timon of Athens. Act I, Sc. 2.

none.

Welcome

Fashion

Ease

The
Winged
Hours

The Fate of the Austere

Eat and

Drink!

LEASURE and action make the hours
Othello. Act II, Sc. 3.

Pleem short.

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WEET recreation barr'd, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,
And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?
In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest
To be disturb'd, would mad or man, or beast.
Comedy of Errors. Act V, Sc. 1.

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come,

And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm
within,

Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster,

Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice

By being peevish?

Merchant of Venice. Act I, Sc. 1.

A

GOOD sherris-sack ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delective shapes; which, deliver'd o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.

King Henry IV. Part II, Act IV, Sc. 3.

A

MERRY heart goes all the day,

Your sad tires in a mile-a.

Winter's Tale. Act IV, Sc. 2.

Be
Merry

A

THE TRAVELLER

GOOD traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner; but one that lies two thirds, and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard, and thrice beaten.

All's Well That Ends Well. Act II, Sc. 5.

Post

pran

dial Folly

Loss

The Traveller's Affectation

Doting

Wit

A

TRAVELLER! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad. I fear you have sold your own lands, to see other men's; then, to have seen much and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands. ... Your experience makes you sad. I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad; and to travel for it, too! As You Like It.

FAR

Act IV, Sc. I.

AREWELL, Monsieur Traveller. Look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.

As You Like It. Act IV, Sc. 1.

IWIT AND FOLLY

ONE are so surely caught, when they
ONE are so

NON

As wit turn'd fool; folly, in wisdom hatch'd,

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