Your daughter, she did confess,

Was as a scorpion in her sight, whose life,
But that her flight prevented it, she had
Ta'en off by poison. (Cymb. v. 5.)

In time we hate that which we often fear. (Ant. Cl. i. 3.)

The love of wicked friends converts to fear,

That fear to hate; and hate turns one, or both,

To worthy danger and deserved death. (R. II. v. 1.)

Folio 107.

1128. He that owt leaps his strength standeth not.
We may outrun

By violent swiftness that which we run at,

And lose by running. (H. VIII. i. 2.)

1129. He keeps his growns (Of one that speaketh certainly and pertinently

I do not know how to assure you farther, but

I shall lose the ground I work upon. (All's W. iii. 7.)

(See folio 114.)

1130. He lighteth well (Of one that concludeth his speech well.

1131. Of speaches dig

the end of the matter

I will delve (of a plot).

reserve

This goeth not to

From the lawyers.

(Ham. iii. 4, 209.)

I cannot delve him to the root. (Cymb. i. 1, 28.)

To bring this matter to the wished end. (1 H. VI. iii. 4, 28.)

1132. For learning sake.

For satisfaction's sake. (Ess. Of Negotiating.)

For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,

Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men. (L. L. L. iv. 3.) For fame's sake. . . . For praise sake. (Ib. iv. 1.)

1133. Motion of the mynd. Explicat in words, implicat in thoughts. I judge best implicat in thoughts. I hail or mark because of swiftnes collocat and differe to make woords sequac (sic).

Motion of his spirits. (Mer. Ven. v. 1.)
His inward motion. (John, i. 1.)

A most barbarous intimation, yet a kind of insinuation, as it were in via, in way of explication, facere, as it were, replication. (L. L. L. iv. 2.)

Folio 108.

UPON IMPATIENCE OF AUDIENCE.

1134. Verbera sed audi. (Strike, but hear.)

Am I entreated then to speak and strike? (Jul. Cæs. ii. 1.)

O let me speak!

Do, then, but I will not hear. (R. III. iv. 4.)

Talk not to me.

Yet hear me speak. (Mer. Wiv. iv. 6.)

I can give audience to any tongue, speak it of what it will.

Forbear sharp speeches to her; she's a lady
So tender of rebukes that words are strokes,
And strokes death to her. (Cymb. iii. 5, &c.)

(John, iv. 2.)

1135. Auribus mederj difficillimum. (To remedy the

ears [bad hearing] is very difficult.)

It is a vice in her ears, which horsehair

amend. (Cymb. ii. 3.)

can never

What a strange infection is fallen in thine ear. (Cymb. iii. 2.) (See No. 75.)

1136. Noluit intelligere ut bene ageret.-Ps. xxxv. 4, Vul. (He hath left off to be wise, and to do good.)

1137. The ey is the gate of the affection, but the ear

of the understanding.

All his behaviours did make their retire

To the court of his eye, peeping through desire.

(L. L. L. ii. 1.) Love, first learned in a lady's eyes. (L. L. L. iv. 3.) Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues, Let every eye negotiate for itself. (M. Ado, ii. 1.)

I'll lock up all the gates of love, and on my eyelids shall conjecture hang. (M. Ado, iv. 1.)

The beauty that is born here in the face
The bearer knows not, but commends itself
To others' eyes: nor doth the eye itself,
That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself,
Not going from itself, but eye to eye opposed,
Salutes each other with each other's form;
For speculation turns not to itself

Till it hath travell'd, and is mirror'd1 there,
Where it may see itself. (Tr. Cr. iii. 3.)

I feel this youth's perfections

to creep in at mine eyes.

(Tw. N. i. 5.)

You cram these words into mine ears, against
The stomach of my sense. (Temp. ii. 1.)

Fasten your ear on mine advisings. (M. M. iii. 1.)

(Your advice) falls as profitless into mine ears as water into a sieve. (M. Ado, v. 1.)

An ear quick of apprehension. (M. N. D. iii. 2.)

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. (Ham. iv. 2.)

(About 220 similar instances.)

1138. The fable of the Syrenes.

Sing, syren, for thyself . .

Lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,

I'll stop my ears against the mermaid's song. (Com. Er. iii. 2.) that will charm Rome's Saturnine,

This

syren

And see his shipwrack. (Tit. And. ii. 1.)

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall, .

I'll play the orator as well as Nestor. (3 H. VI. iii. 3.)

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1139. Placidasque viri deus obstruit aures.-Virg. Æn.

iv. 440. (And the god bars his ears to gentleness.)

The gods are quick of ear. (Per. iv. 1.)

I think the echoes of his shames have deaf'd

The ears of heavenly justice. (Tw. N. Kins. i. 2.)

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. (Tr. Cr. v. 3.)

16 Mirrored,' Mr. Collier's text. Other editions, 'married.'

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UPON QUESTION TO REWARD EVIL WITH EVIL.

1140. Noli æmularj in malignantibus.-Ps. xxvi. 1, Vul. (Fret not thyself because of evil-doers-i.e. be not jealous at their prosperity.)

Envy no man's happiness. (As Y. L. iii. 2.)

Envy of each other's happiness. (Hen. V. v. 2.)

(Upwards of sixty similar passages on envy and jealousy.)

1141. Crowne him with coals.

(Compare Prov. xxv. 22.)

1142. Nil malo quam illos

Similes esse suj et me mej.

(I would have nothing rather than them to be like themselves and me to be like myself.)

Ay, now my sovereign speaketh for himself.

(3 Hen. VI. iv. 8.)

I shall hereafter . . . be more myself. (1 Hen. IV. iii. 2.)

O now you look like Hubert. (John, iv. 1.)

I rather tell thee what is to be feared

Than what I fear, for always am I Cæsar. (Jul. Cæs. i. 2.)

Dem. Is Cæsar with Antonius prized so slight?

Phi. Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony

He comes too short of that great property

Which should go with Antony.

(Ant. Cl. i. 1.)

I am Antony yet. (Ant. Cl. iii. 11.)

Since my lord

Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra. (Ib.; and see iii. 9, 8–26.)

He fell to himself again, and in all the rest showed

A most noble patience. (Hen. VIII. ii. 1.)

You speak not like yourself. (Ib. ii. 4.)

My heart weeps to see him so little of his great self.

(Ib. iii. 2.)

1144.1 Cum perverso perverteris.-Ps. xvii. 27, Vul

gate. (With the froward thou shalt be froward.)

No. 1143 omitted; see foot-note, p. 310.

And you, my lords, methinks you do not well
To bear with their perverse objections,

Much less to take occasion from their mouths

To raise a mutiny betwixt ourselves. (1 H. VI. iv. 3.)

1145. Lex talionis. (The law of retaliation.)

(See an illustration of this in Mer. Ven. i. 2, 40-50; and iii. 1, 46-71; iii. 3, 6-21; iv. 1.)

Shylock. The villainy you teach me I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

1146. You are not for this world.

His nature is too noble for the world. (Cor. iii, 2.)

I am sick of this false world.

(Tim. Ath. iv. 3.)

You have too much respect upon the world,

They lose it that do buy it with much care. (Mer. Ven. i. 1.) (Connect with 1147.)

1147. Tanto buon che val niente.

good for nothing.)

(So good that he is

Poor honest lord; brought low by his own heart,
Undone by goodness! Strange unusual blood,
When man's worst sin is, he does too much good.

(See No. 908.)

(Tim. Ath. iv. 2.)

1148. Upon question whether a man should speak or forbear speech.

1149. Quia tacui inveteraverunt ossa mea. (Speach may now and then breed smart in ye flesh; but keeping it in goeth to ye bone. (Because I kept silence my bones waxed old.-Psalm xxxi. 3, Vulgate.)

The sword of Orleans hath not made me smart.

These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart.

O heart, heavy heart,

Why sighest thou without breaking,

Because thou can'st not ease thy smart

(1 H. VI. iv. 7.)

By silence1 nor by speaking. (Tr. Cr. iv. 4.)

Silence in Mr. Collier's text; friendship' in other editions.

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