97. Mors in olla.

(See No. 92.)

98. No wise speech, though easy and voluble.

99. Notwithstanding his dialogues (of one that giveth life to his speech by way of question).

So skipping a dialogue. (Tw. N. i. 5.)

And so ere answer knows what question would

Saving in dialogue of compliment

It draws towards supper in conclusion so. (John, i. 1.)

So on the tip of his subduing tongue

All kinds of arguments and questions deep

All replication prompt and reason strong.

Consents bewitched . .

And dialogued for him. (Lover's Complaint, 120–132.)

100. He can tell a tale well (of those courtly gifts of speech which are better in describing than in considering).

I tell this tale vilely. (M. Ado. iii. 3.)

I can mar a curious tale in the telling. (Lear, i. 4.)

101. A good comediante (of one that hath good grace in his speech).

Are you a comedian?

No, my profound heart . . . But this is from my commission. I will on with my speech in your praise. . . . I took great pains to study it. (Tw. N. i. 5.)

102. To commend judgments.

Cle. He's very knowing, I do perceive't:
The fellow has good judgment. (Ant. Cl. iii. 3.)

Be not angry

.. that I have adventured

To try your taking of a false report: which hath

Honoured with confirmation your great judgment. (Cymb. i. 7.) (About a hundred instances in which good judgment is commended and defect of judgment condemned.)

103. To commend sense of law.

If you deny me, fie upon your law. (Mer. Ven. iv. 1.)

I stand here for law. I charge you by the law.

(Mer. Ven. iv. 1.) You know the law; your exposition bath been most sound. (Mer. Ven. iv. 1.) haste commend your sense of duty. (Ham. i. 2.) (Frequent.)

Let

your

104. Cunning in the humours of persons, but not in the conditions of actions.

It is one thing to understand persons, and another to understand matters; for many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business, &c. (Ess. Cunning.) Will you bide within? I go tell my lord the Emperor How I have governed our determined jest.

Yield to his humour, smooth and speak him fair.

Tit. (aside) I know them all, though they suppose me mad, And will o'er-reach them in their own devices. (Tit And. v. 2.)

Shame that they wanted cunning, in excess hath broke their hearts. (Tim. Ath. v. 4.)

Falstaff will learn the humour of the age. (Mer. Wiv. i. 3.)

I see men's judgments are

A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward

Do draw the inward quality after them, &c. (Ant. Cl. iii. 11.)

(See also Oth. iii. 3; Lear, i. 1, 2, iii. 1, 20; Cymb. v. 5, 180-209; Per. iii. 2, 27, &c. &c.)

105. Stay a little that we may make an end the

sooner.

(Quoted as a saying of Sir Amyas Paulet, Apothegms.)

106. A fool's bolt is soon shot.

A fool's bolt is soon shot. (H. V. iii. 7; As Y. L. v. I will shoot my fool's bolt since you will have it so. to Essex, 1597.)

A bolt of nothing, shot at nothing,
Which the brain makes of fumes. (Cymb. iv. 2.)

107. His lippes hang in his light.

108. Best we lay a straw here.

Two thousand souls, and twenty thousand ducats,
Will not debate the question of this straw...

Rightly to be great,

Is, not to stir without great argument;

...

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw. (Ham. iv. 4.)

She spurns enviously at straws.

iii. 4, 128.)1

4.)

(Letter

(Ham. iv. 5; and John,

109. A myle post thwitten (sic) to a pudding pricke. (From Dis to Dædalus, from post to pillar.-Tw. N. Kins. iii. 6.)

110. One swallo (sic) maketh no summer.

Sec. Lord. The swallow follows not summer

More willingly than we your Lordship.

Tim. Nor more willingly leaves winter.

Such summer birds are men. (Tim. Ath. iii. 6.)

King. O Westmoreland! thou art a summer bird,

Which ever in the haunch of winter sings

The lifting up of day. (2 Hen. IV. iv. 4.)

'These passages are only introduced because they all show 'a straw' to be used as expressive of a very trifling thing or obstacle. Perhaps the note may mean- 'Here we must raise a small objection,' or 'Here we must throw out a slight hint.'

111. L'astrologia e vera ma l'astrologica non si truva. (Astrology is true, but the astrologer is not to be found.)

O learned indeed were that astronomer

That knew the stars as I his characters.

He'll lay the future open. (Cymb. iii. 2.)

112. Hercules' pillars non ultra.

The sciences seem to have their Hercules' pillars, which bound the desires and hopes of mankind. (Gt. Instauration, Pref.)

Mur. Most royal sir, Fleance is 'scaped.

Macb. Then comes my fit again, I had else been perfect. Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,

As broad and general as is the casing air

;

But now, I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in,

To saucy doubts and fears. (Macb. iii. 3.)

Ham. Denmark's a prison.

Ros. Then the world's one.

Ham. A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one of the worst. . . . To me it is a prison.

Ros. Why, then your ambition makes it one: 'tis too narrow for your mind.

Ham. O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

Guild. Which dreams, indeed, are ambition. (Ham. ii. 2.)

113. He had rather have his will than his wish.

Whoever hath his wish, thou hast thy will. (Sonnet cxxxv.) Bidst thou me rage? Why, now thou hast thy wish,

Wouldst have me weep?

Why, now thou hast thy will.

(3 Hen. VI. i. 4.)

2.)

The maid that stood in the way to my wish
Shall show me the way to my will. (Hen. V. v.

114. Well to forget.

I will forget that Julia is alive,

Remembering that my love to her is dead. (Tw. G. Ver. ii. v.)

There forget all former griefs. Cancel all grudge.

I would forget her, but a fever she

(Tw. G. Ver. v. 4)

Brings in my blood, and will remembered be. (L. L. L. iv. 3.)

Unless you teach me to forget, you must not learn me to remember. (As You Like It, i. 2.)

(See No. 1241.)

115. Make much of yourself.

Make much of me. (Ant. Cl. iv. 2.)

The bird we have made so much of.

(Cymb. iv. 2.)

King. More of this measure, be not nice.

Bos. We can afford no more at such a price.

King. Prize you yourselves? What buys your company?
Bos. Your absence only.

King.

That can never be.

Bos. Then can we not be bought.

(L. L. L. v. 2 ; and Ham. i. 3, 106–120.)

I know my price. (Oth. i. 1.)

116. Wishing you all, &c., and myself occasion to do you service.

And so I wish your lordship all happiness, and to myself means and occasion to be added to my faithful desire to do you service. (Let. to Burghley, 1592.)

(Tw. N. Kins. ii. 5; 25, 30, 34.)

I love thee

By love's own sweet constraint, and will ever

Do thee all rights of service. (Al's W. iv. 1.)

Percy. My gracious lord, I tender you my service, Which elder days shall ripen and confirm

To more approved service.

Boling. Thank you, gentle Percy, and be sure

I count myself in nothing else so happy

As in a soul remembering my good friends. (R. II. ii. 3.)

So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,

As my true service shall deserve your love. (Rich. II. iii. 3.)