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Orl. I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you, tell me your remedy.

Ros. There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

Orl. What were his marks?

Ros. A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye and sunken, which you have not; an unquestionable spirit, which you have not; a beard neglected, which you have not; but I pardon you for that, for simply your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue: then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation; but you are no such man ; you are rather point device in your accoutrements as loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other. (As Y. L. iii. 2.)

Love's provocations, zeal, a mistress' task, .

Hath set a mark, which nature could not reach to
Without some imposition. (Tw. N. Kins. i. 4.)

1426. To plaine him on

Shall I complain on thee? (Tam. Sh. iv. 1.)

1427. Ameled (Fayned counterfeit in the best kynd The jewel best enamelled

Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still. . .

No man that hath a name

By falsehood and corruption doth it shame. (Com. Er. ii. 1.)

1428. Having the upper grownd (Awcthority

If they get ground and advantage of the king,

Then join you with them. (2 II. IV. ii. 2.)

H.

Give ground if you see him furious. (Tw. N. iii. 4.)

With five times so much conversation, I should get ground of your fair mistress. (Cymb. i. 5; and Jul. Cæs. iv. 3, 38-9, 44.)

1429. His resorts (His conceyts

1430. It may be well last for it hath lasted well

I am the last that will last keep his oath. (L. L. L. i. 1.)
I see things may serve long but not serve ever. (All's W. ii. 3.)

1431. Those that are great with yow are great by yow

I care not to wax great by others waning. (2 Hen. VI. iv. 10.)

Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st

Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growst. (Sonn. cxxvi.)
Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves
The scourge of greatness to be used on it;

And that greatness, too, which our own hands

Have holp to make so portly. (1 Hen. IV. i. 3.)

So I leave him

To him that made him proud, the Pope. (H. VIII. ii. 2.)

1432. The avenues

In conclusion, he wished him not to shut the gate of your majesty's mercy against himself. (Let. to the King.)

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious lord.
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up.

I will lock up all the gates of love. (M.
Pathways to his will. (Rom. Jul. ii. 3.)

(3 Hen. VI. i. 4, 177.) (Hen. V. iii. 3, 10.) Ado, iv. 1.)

The natural gates and alleys of the body. (Ib. ii. 5.)
The road of Casualty. (Mer. Ven. ii. 9.)

Untread the roadway of rebellion.1 (John, v. 4, 11.)
The road into his kindness. (Cor. v. 1.)

Since it will be difficult to know the ways to death.

(Hist. of Life and Death.)

The way to dusty death. (Macb. v. 5.)

(His) grace chalks successors their way. (Hen. VIII. i. 1.)

The

way of loyalty and truth. (Ib. iii. 2:)

The ways of honour. (Ib.)

('Way' in this sense upwards of a hundred times.)

Strong circumstances

Which lead directly to the door of truth. (Oth. iii. 3.)

Having found the back door open

Of the unguarded hearts. (Cymb. v. 3.)

1 Thus in Mr. Collier's text. In other editions, unthread the rude eye.

1433. A back thought (? Fr. Arrière pensée.)

How is it

That this lives in thy mind? What see'st thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time? (Temp. i. 2.)

I have bethought me of another fault.

I have bethought me what was past.

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(M. M. v. 1.)

(Per. i. 2.)

(Oth. v. 2.)

Perpetuo juvenis (Perpetually youthful.)

Jupiter. conferred upon mankind a most acceptable and desirable present, viz. perpetual youth . . . the perpetual renewal of youth was, for a drop of water, transferred from men to the race of serpents. (See 'Prometheus,' Wisd. of Ants, xxvi.)

Whatsoever singularity chance, and the shuffle of things hath produced. (Gesta Grayorum, First Counsellor.)

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. (Ham. iii. 1.) Your life, good master, must shuffle for itself.

(Cymb. v. 5.) A shuffling up of a prosecution. (Apology, 1599.)

In heaven there's no shuffling. (Ham. iii. 3, and iv. 7.)

To shuffle, to hedge. (Mer. Wiv. ii. 2.)

Shuffle her away. (Ib. iv. 2.)

1435. A bonance (A caulme

1436. To drench to potion to infect

In sleep their drenched natures lie. (Macb. i. 7.)

They fight with queasiness as men drink potions.

The potion of imprisonment. (Ib. 2.)

(2 Hen. IV. i. 1.)

Thou minister'st unto me a potion that thou wouldst tremble

to receive. (Per. i. 2.)

They are infected in their hearts. (L. L. L. v. 2.)

(Infect in a metaphorical sense about fifty times.)

Whilst like a willing patient, I will drink

Potions of eysell 'gainst my infection. (Sonn. cxl.)

1437. Haggard in sauvages

Wild, as haggard of the rock. (M. Ado, iii. 1.)
Benedick, love on, I will requite thee,
Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand. (Ib.)
Another way I have to man my haggard

To make her come and know her keeper's call.

(Tam. Sh. iv. 2.)

If I do prove her haggard,

Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,

I'd whistle her off. (Oth. iii. 3.)

1438. Infistuled (Made hollow with malign dealing

Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,
And tent themselves to death. (Cor. i. 2.)

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. . .
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen. (Ham. iii. 4.)

O heinous bold and strong conspiracy! . .

This festered joint cut off, the rest rest sound;

This let alone, will all the rest confound. (R. II. v. 3.)

As festered members rot but by degrees,

So will this base and envious discord. (1 H. VI. iii. 1.)

1439. The ayre of his behavior; fashons

Shep. Are you a courtier, an 't like you sir?
Ant. Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier.
Seest thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings?
Hath not my gait in it the measure of the court.

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Or let me lose the fashion of a man. (Hen. VIII. iv. 2.)

Folio 128.

1440. Semblances or popularities of good and evill

with their regulations for deliberacions 1

1 See notice of folio 128 in Spedding's Works of Bacon, vii. 67.

All other devils that suggest damnation

Do botch and bungle up damnation

With patches, colours, and with forms being fetched
From glistering semblances of piety. (H. V. ii. 2.)
Most maculate thoughts are masked under such colours.
(L. L. L. i. 2.)

I do fear colourable colours. (Ib. iv. 2.)
He made semblance of his duty. (Hen. VIII. i. 2.)

1441. Cujus contrarium malum bonum, cujus bonum malum. (That thing) of which the contrary is bad, is good; (that thing) of which the contrary is good, is bad.)

Did he not send pardon, . . . love and you would turn our offers contrary. (1 H. IV. v. 5.)

Fri. L. Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions.

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Although fond Nature bids us all lament,

Yet Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

Cap. All things that we ordained festival

Turn from their office to black funeral,

Our bridal flowers serve for buried corse,

And all things change them to the contrary. (Rom. Jul. iv. 4.)

Piety and fear,

Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,

Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood,

Decline to your confounding contraries,
And let confusion live! (Tim. Ath. iv. 1.)

O, thou touch of hearts (gold)!

Think thy slave man rebels; and by thy virtue
Set them into confounding odds, that beasts
May have the world in empire! (Ib. iv. 3.)

The present pleasure

By revolution lowering, does become

The opposite of itself. (Ant. Cl. i. 2.)

Each opposite that blanks the face of joy,

Meet what I would have well and it destroy! (Ham. iii. 2.)

1442. Non tenet in ijs rebus quarum vis in temperamento et mensura sita est. (It does not hold of those

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