To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares; SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552-1618. If all the world and love were young, The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd. Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Passions are likened best to Floods and Streams. Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay. Verses to Edmund Spenser. O eloquent, just and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom ali the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchéd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie and ambition of men, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! Historie of the World, Book v. Pt. 1, ad fin. Fain would I climb but that I fear to fall. Written on a pane of glass, in Queen Elizabeth's presence.1 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. The Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. Ibid. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. Ibid. 1 Her reply was,— If thy heart fail thee, why then climb at all. High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. Arcadia. Book i. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, 1 Quoted by Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii. Sc. 3. 2 Cf. Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book i. Ch. 23. 3 Quoted by Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act iii. Sc. 5. IO MARLOWE.-Hooker.—SHAKESPEARE. FAUSTUS-continued.] Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, That sometimes grew within this learned man. Ibid. Now will I shew myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. Love me little, love me long.2 Ibid. Act ii. Ibid. Act iv. ーロー RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i. That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616. THE TEMPEST. Ibid. Book i. 1 O, withered is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fallen. 2 See Herrick, p. 95. Acti. Sc. 2. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act iv. Sc. 13. 'spiriting,' Cambridge ed. ? This passage probably owes its origin to the following lines in Lord Stirling's Tragedie of Darius, 1604 : Those golden pallaces, those gorgeous halles, With fourniture superfluouslie faire; Those statelie courts, those sky encountring walles, Evanish all like vapours in the aire. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, him so. O, how this spring of love resembleth As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, Acti. Sc. 1. because I think Acti. Sc. 2. Act i. Sc. 3. Act ii. Sc. 4. Act i. Sc. I. Acti. Sc. 1. All his successors, gone before him, have done 't; and all his ancestors, that come after him, may. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. Mine host of the Garter. Acti. Sc. I. I had rather than forty shillings I had my book of songs and sonnets here. Acti. Sc. I. If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married, and have more occasion to know one another: I hope upon familiarity will grow more contempt. Convey, the wise it call. Steal? foh! a fico for the phrase ! Tester I'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! The humour of it. Acti. Sc. 1. Acti. Sc. 3. Acti. Sc. 3. Act i. Sc. 3. |