makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion, should keep the body of it ever fair. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, A. 3, s. 1. DIVINE INSTINCTS IN MAN. WHEN clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks ; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand; K. RICHARD III., A. 2, s. 3. DIVINITY OF NOBLE SYMPATHY. HE that commends me to mine own content, Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water, That in the ocean seeks another drop; Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother, and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself. COMEDY OF ERRORS, A. 1, s. 2. DIVINE SYMPATHY. ORLANDO. Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you: I thought, that all things had been savage here; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment: But whate'er you are, That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, If ever you Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever from your eye-lids wip'd a tear, days; And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church; ORL. Then, but forbear your food a little while, Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn, poor man, Who after me hath many a weary step Limp'd in pure love; till he be first suffic'd,Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,— I will not touch a bit. DUKE. And we will nothing waste till Go find him out, you return. AS YOU LIKE IT, A. 2, s. 8. DOUBLE ATTRACTION OF WEALTH WITH GOODNESS. POET. You see this confluence, this great I have, in this rough work, shap'd out a man, PAINTER. How shall I understand you ? You see how all conditions, how all minds, To Apemantus, that few things loves better TIMON OF ATHENS, A. 1, s. 1. DREAMS AND THEIR CONSE QUENCES. He dreamt To-night the boar had rased off his helm: Besides, he says, there are two councils held; And that may be determin'd at the one, Which may make you and him to rue at the other. Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure, If, presently, you will take horse with him, And with all speed post with him toward the north, To shun the danger that his soul divines. K. RICHARD III., A. 3, s. 2. DUPLICITY. O, SIR, content you; I follow him to serve my turn upon him: Whip me such honest knaves: Others there are, Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves; And, throwing but shows of service on their lords, Do well thrive by them, and, when they have lin'd their coats, Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul; And such a one do I profess myself. It is as sure as you are Roderigo, Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago: Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, For when my outward action doth demonstrate But get thee back, my soul is too much charg'd With blood of thine already. MACD. I have no words, My voice is in my sword; thou bloodier villain Than terms can give thee out! [They fight. MACB. Thou losest labour: As easy may'st thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. I bear a charmed life, which must not yield MACD. MACB. Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cow'd my better part of man! |