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81. Minerall wyttes strong poyson, and they be not corrected.

A mortal mineral. (Cymb. v. 5.)

The thought. . . . doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards. (Oth. ii. 1.)

The other stream of hatred was of a deeper and more mineral nature. (Charge against Somerset.)

82. Aquexar. (To weary; to afflict.—Sp.)

(Compare f. 83, 1.)

Reason thus with life. . . . A breath thou art.

That dost this habitation where thou keepest hourly afflict ( weary).

Look, who comes here? a grave unto a soul;

Holding the eternal spirit against her will

(M. M. iii. 1.)

In the vile prison of afflicted (? wearied) breath. (John, iii. 4.) The weariest (? most afflicted) and most loathed life.

(See Mer. Ven. i. 1, 1.)

(M. M. iii. 1, 129.)

Folio 84b.

83. Ametallado, fayned inameled.

I see the jewel best enamelled will lose his beauty, yet the gold bides still. (Com. Er. ii. 2.)

A fair enamelling of a terrible danger. (Let. to the Queen, 1584.)

84. Totum est majus sua parte. (The whole is greater than its part.) Against factions and private profit.

Among the soldiers this is muttered,—

That here you maintain several factions,

And, whilst a field should be despatch'd and fought,
You are disputing of your generals, &c.

King. Civil dissension is a viperous worm

(1 Hen. VI. i. 1.)

That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. . .
Mayor. The bishop and the Duke of Glo'ster's men.
Banding themselves in contrary parts

Do pelt. . . . at one another's pate.

King. O, how this discord doth afflict my soul.

...

(1 Hen. VI. iii. 1.)

I have. . . . forsaken your pernicious faction,

And joined with Charles, the rightful King of France.

This jarring discord of nobility. .

...

This factious bandying of their favourites.

Doth presage some ill event, &c. (Ib.)

(1 Hen. VI. iv. 1.)

(The weakening of power through faction and division seems to be the keynote of 1 Hen. VI.)

You are deceived, my substance is not here,

For what you see is but the smallest part

And least proportion of humanity.

I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,

It is of such a spacious lofty pitch

Your roof were not sufficient to contain it. (1 Hen. VI. ii. 2.)

All this divided York and Lancaster,

Divided in their dire division.

O! now let Richmond and Elizabeth, .

By God's fair ordinance conjoin together. (R. III. v. 4.) (Compare No. 1265a.)

85. Galen's compositions, not Paracelsus' separations.

To be relinquished of the artists-both of Galen and Paracelsus-of all the learned and authentic fellows. (All's Well, ii. 3.) (See Shakespeare's Medical Knowledge, by Dr. Bucknill, p. 102.)

86. Full musicke of easy ayres, without strange concordes and discordes.

I ever liked the Galenists, that deal with good compositions; and not the Parcelsians, that deal with fine separations; and in music I ever loved easy airs, that go full at all the parts together, and not these strange points of accord and discord. (Letter to Sir Robt. Cecil, 1594.)

Music do I hear?

Ha, ha! keep time; how sour sweet music is
When Time is broke and no proportion kept

So is it in the music of men's lives.

And here have I the daintiness of ear

To check time broke in a disordered string. But for the concord of my state and time, Had not an ear to hear my true time broke. (R. II. v. 5.) (See Tw. G. Ver. i. 2, 85-93; Al's W., i. 1, 176; M. N. D. v. 1, 60; Sonnet viii.; and other places for discords and concords used metaphorically. Also compare with the second passage quoted at No. 84 from 1 Hen. VI. iv. 1.)

87 In medio non sistit virtus.

mean.)

(Virtue is not set in a

It is no mean happiness to be seated in the mean.

(Mer. V. i. 2.) True men are naturally given to superstition. The Protestant religion is seated in the golden mean. (Advice to Villiers.)

He were an excellent man that were made just in the middle between him and Benedick, &c. (M. Ado, ii. 1.)

(See 1469.)

88. Totum est quod superest. (What remains is the whole.)

For me, nothing remains. (1 Hen. VI. i. 1.)

What more remains. (R. II. iv. 1.)

Then no more remains.

89. A stone without foyle.

(M. M. 1. 1.)

He that is only real, had need have exceeding great parts of virtue; as the stone had need to be rich that is set without foil. (Ess. Of Ceremonies.)

A base foul stone, made precious by the foil
Of England's chair, where he was falsely set.

(Said of Richard, R. III. v. 3.)

The sullen passage of thy weary steps

Esteem a foil, wherein thou art to set

The precious jewel of thy home-return. (R. II. i. 3.)

Like bright metal on a sullen ground,

My reformation glittering o'er my fault,

Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes

Than that which hath no foil to set it off. (1 Hen. IV. i. 2.)

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. (Ess. Of Beauty.)

I will set you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master for a jewel. (2 Hen. IV. i. 2.)

The parts that fortune hath bestowed upon her,

Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune;

But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems

That nature pranks her in, attracts my soul. (Tw. N. ii. 4.)

(England) This precious stone set in the silver sea.

(Rich. II. ii. 1.)

Never so rich a gem was set in worse than gold.

(Mer. Ven. ii. 7.)

The jewel best enamell'd will lose its beauty. (Com. Er. ii. 1.) The best governments are like precious stones, wherein every flaw or grain are seen and noted. (Speech.)

My love to thee is without crack or flaw. (L. L. L. v. 2.)

He is the very brooch, the gem of the nation. (Ham. iv. 7.)

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90. A whery man (sic), that looks one way and pulls another.

(Quoted in a letter to Essex, 1593.)

91. Ostrascime.

92. Mors in olla: poyson in.-2 Kings iv. 40.

I have noted that in all God's book I find examples of other offences and offenders in their kinds, but not of impoisonment. .. Mors in olla. (Charge against Wentworth, 1616.)

I'll have him poisoned in a pot of ale. (1 H. IV. i. 3.)

Let a cup of sack be my poison. (1 H. IV. ii. 2.)

(See Cymb. vi. 1-5; and Ham. v. 2.

Also No. 97.)

93. Fumos vendere. (To sell smoke.)-Eras. Ad. 241; Martial, 457.)

Item.-No knight of this order shall give out what gracious words the Prince hath given him.

Contrary to the late inhibition of selling smoke. (Gesta. Graym.)
Sweet smoke of rhetoric! (L. L. L. iii. 1.)
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye
Persuade my heart to this false perjury? . .
My vow was breath, and breath a vapour is, &c.

94. Oremus.

(L. L. L. iv. 3, sonnet.)

Let us all to meditation. (2 H. VI. iii. 3.)
All lost! To prayers, to prayers! (Temp. i. 1.)

Ham. Such as it is: and for mine own poor part
I'll go pray. (Ham. i. 5.)

(References to saying prayers about 150 times.)

Folio 85.*

95. Suavissima vita indies meliorem fieri.

sweetest life is to become daily better.)

(The

You will confess that the greatest delight is 'Sentire te indies fieri meliorem.' (Advice to the Duke of Rutland, 1595.)

And so we leave you to your meditations,

How to live better. (Hen. VIII. iii. 2.)

My desolation does begin to make a better life. (Ant. Cl. v. 2.)

(See Ham. iii. 4. 150-173.)

96. The grace of God is worth a faire.

Ministers of grace defend us! (Ham. i. 4.)

The grace of heaven before, behind thee. (Oth. ii. 1.)

Grace go with you. (Lear, v. 2.)

Thou art a wicked villain, despite all grace. (M. M. i. 2, rep.)

Heaven give thee moving graces! (M. M. ii. 2.)

Heaven rain grace. (Temp. iii. 1.)

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