DAN

ANGEROUS conceits are, in their natures, poisons,

Which at the first are scarce found to dis

taste,

But with a little act upon the blood,
Burn like the mines of sulphur.

Results

TH

Othello. Act III, Sc. 3.

HINGS bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Unreason

Selfcreated

JEALOUSY

RIFLES light as air

Are to the jealous confirmations strong

As proofs of holy writ.

BU

Othello. Act III, Sc. 3.

UT jealous souls will not be answer'd so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

Othello. Act III, Sc. 4.

DRUNKENNESS

RUNK? and speak parrot? and squab

r?

fustian with one's own shadow? O, thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee-devil!

O, God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, revel, pleasure and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O, strange! Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.

OME, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well us'd; exclaim no more against it.

DRY

Othello. Act II, Sc. 3.

The
Spirit of
Wine

A Re

monstrance

RY up thy marrows, vines and plough- Greastorn leas,

Ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts,

ing the Mind

Fouling the Brain

Water

Adaptation

Corrupt
Judges

And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,
That from it all consideration slips!

Timon of Athens. Act IV, Sc. 3.

T'S monstrous labour when I wash my

IT

brain

And it grows fouler.

H

Antony and Cleopatra. Act II, Sc. 7.

ERE'S that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

WE

Timon of Athens. Act I, Sc. 2.

THE LAW

E must not make a scare-crow of the
law,

Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.

ΤΗ

Measure for Measure. Act II, Sc. I.

HIEVES for their robbery have authority,
When judges steal themselves.

Measure for Measure. Act II, Sc. 2.

HROUGH tatter'd clothes small vices do
appear;

ΤΗ

Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin
with gold,

And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
King Lear. Act IV, Sc. 6.

IS gold

TIS

Which makes the true man kill'd and
saves the thief,

Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true
man. What

Can it not do and undo?

Cymbeline. Act II, Sc. 3.

HE laws, your curb and whip, in their

Tough power

Have uncheck'd theft.

TH

Timon of Athens. Act IV, Sc. 3.

HOUGH authority be a stubborn bear,
yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.
Winter's Tale. Act IV, Sc. 3.

Rich and

Poor

Gold

The Law a Thief

A Bear

Injustice

Truth

Directness

Nonperform

ance

A

ND not ever

The justice and the truth o' the ques

tion carries

The due o' the verdict with it.

IT

Henry VIII. Act V, Sc. I.

INCONSTANCY

T is religion that doth make vows kept.
King John. Act III, Sc. 1.

T is

strong the

Vow,

It the purpose that makes ste

But vows to every purpose must not hold.

'TIS

Troilus and Cressida. Act V, Sc. 3.

++

IS not the many oaths that make the
truth;

But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act IV, Sc. 2.

PRO

ROMISING is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever the duller for his act, and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people,