That keep the word of promise to our ear, And live to be the show and gaze o' the time. Here may you see the tyrant. I'll not yield, MACB. To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet; And to be baited with the rabble's curse. Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou oppos'd, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last: before my body I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff; And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough. MACBETH, A. 5, s. 8. EARTHLY LOVE MAY SO BE WON, BUT HEAVENLY LOVE CAN NEVER BE SO INAUGURATED. DUKE. There is a lady, sir, in Milan, here, Whom I affect; but she is nice, and coy, And nought esteems my aged eloquence: Now, therefore, would I have thee to my tutor, (For long agone I have forgot to court: Besides, the fashion of the time is chang'd;) How, and which way, I may bestow myself, To be regarded in her sun-bright eye. VALENTINE. Win her with gifts, if she respect not words, Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, VAL. A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her: Send her another; never give her o'er; For scorn at first makes after-love the more. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, a. 3, s. 1. EARTH'S BLESSING, AND HEAVEN'S DAUGHTER. WHO is Silvia? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heavens such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind, as she is fair? To help him of his blindness; TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, A. 4, s. 2. EASE THE BRAIN, OR THE HEART BURSTS. MERCIFUL heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows: Give sorrow words: the grief, that does not speak, Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. MACBETH, A. 4, s. 3. EBB AND FLOW OF FORTUNE. THUS, sometimes, hath the brightest day a cloud; And, after summer, evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. Ten is the hour that was appointed me, To watch the coming of my punish'd duchess; Badly may she endure the flinty streets, To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook The abject people, gazing on thy face, With envious looks still laughing at thy shame; That erst did follow thy proud chariot wheels, When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets. K. HENRY VI., PART II., A. 2, s. 4. ECONOMY OF LOVE. Not that I think, you did not love your father; A kind of wick, or snuff, that will abate it; Dies in his own too-much: That we would do, We should do when we would; for this would changes, And hath abatements and delays as many, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this should is like a spendthrift's sigh, That hurts by easing. HAMLET, A. 4, s. 7. EFFECT OF POWER. My uncle is king of Denmark; and those, that would make mouths at him while my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, an hundred ducats a-piece, for his picture in little. 'Sblood, there is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out. HAMLET, A. 2, s. 2. EFFECTS OF STANDING ON DOVER CLIFF. COME on, sir; here's the place ;-stand still.How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high :-I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. KING LEAR, A. 4, s. 6. ELECTION TACTICS. He said, he had wounds, which he could show in private; And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn, Your most sweet voices :-now you have left your voices, I have no further with you. EVASION. CORIOLANUS, A. 2, s. 3. WHAT paper were you reading? No? what needed then that terrible despatch of it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see: Come, if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles. KING LEAR, A. 1, s. 2. EVEN REVOLVEMENT NECESSARY FOR ALL. How now, my lord of Worcester? 'tis not well, That you and I should meet upon such terms |