Sometimes her head on one side, some another. So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes, My cabin where I lay thrice bow'd before me. There weep, and leave it crying; and, for the babe I pr'ythee, call't; for this ungentle business, I did in time collect myself; and thought I will be squar'd by this. Poor wretch, THE INFANT EXPOSED. That, for thy mother's fault, art thus expos'd The day frowns more and more; thou art like .o have A lullaby too rough. A CLOWN'S DESCRIPTION OF A WRECK. I would, you did but see how it chafes, how it rages, how it takes up the shore! but that's not to the point:, the most pitious cry of the poor souls! sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em: now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast; and anon swallowed with yest and froth, as you'd thrust a cork into a hogshead. And then for the land service,To see how the bear tore out his shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help, and said his name was An tigonus, a nobleman;-But to make an end of the ship: to see how the sea flap-dragoned* it:-but first, how the poor souls roared, and the sea mocked them; and how the poor gentleman roared, and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than the sea, or weather. ACT IV. A GARLAND FOR OLD MEN. Reverend sirs, For you there's rosemary, and rue; these keep NATURE AND ART. Per. Sir, the year growing ancient,Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o'the season Are our carnations, and streak'd gillyflowers, Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not To get slips of them. Pol. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them? Per. Fort I have heard it said, There is an art, which, in their pieduess, shares Pol. Say, there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race; This is an art Which does mend nature,―change it rather: but The art itself is nature. A GARLAND FOR MIDDLE-AGED MEN. I'll not put * Swallowed + Likeness and smell. Because that. The dibble in earth to set one slip of them; This youth should say, 'twere well; and only therefore Desire to breed by me.-Here's flowers for you; The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, A GARLAND FOR YOUNG MEN. Cam. I should leave grazing, were I of your flock, And only live by gazing. Per. Out, alas! You'd be so lean, that blasts of January Would blow you through and through.-Now my fairest friend,. I would, I had some flowers o' the spring, that might That come before the swallow dares, and take A LOVER'S COMMENDATION. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, TRUE LOVE. He says, he loves my daughter: I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon PRESENTS LIGHTLY REGARDED BY REAL LOVERS. Pol. How now, fair shepherd? Your heart is full of something, that does take To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd Flo. Old sir, I know The gifts, she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd A FATHER THE BEST GUEST AT HIS SON'S NUPTIALS. Pol. Methinks, a father Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest That best becomes the table. Pray you, once more: Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid With age, and altering rheums? Can he speak? hear? Know man from man? dispute his own estate?* Flo. Pol. Something unfilial: Reason, my son Should choose himself a wife: but as good reason, But fair posterity,) should hold some counsel RURAL SIMPLICITY. I was not much afeard. for once, or twice, LOVE CEMENTED BY PROSPERITY, BUT LOOSENED BY ADVERSITY. Prosperity's the very bond of love; Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. ACT V. WONDER, PROCEEDING FROM SUDDEN JOY. There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: A notable passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest *Talk over his affairs. |