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Tro. Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds! Fools on both sides. Helen must needs be fair,

When with your blood you daily paint her thus.

I cannot fight upon this argument. (Tr. Cr. i. 1.)

264. Bellum omnium pater. (War is the father of all things.) According to Darwin, in the struggle for existence only the strongest survives.

265. De nouveau tout est beau. De saison tout est bon.

Why should proud summer boast
Before the birds have any cause to sing?
Why should I joy in any abortive birth?
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish for snow in May's new-f
w-fangled birth,
But like of each thing that in season grows.

(L. L. L. i. 1.)

Even for our kitchen we kill the fowl of season.

(M. M. ii. 2.)

How many things by seasons seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection. (Mer. Ven. v. 1.)
Things growing are not ripe until their season. (M. N. D. ii. 2.)
Be friended with aptness of the season. (Cymb. ii. 3.)

(Upwards of fifty similar passages.)

266. Di danare, di senno e di fede
Ce ne manco che tu credi.

(See ante, No. 44.)

267. Di mentira y sagueras verdad. (Tell a lie and find a truth.)

To find out right with wrong-it may not be. (Rich. II. i. 3.)

I think 't no sin

To cozen him that would unjustly win. (All's Well, iv.

2.)

It is a falsehood that she is in, which is with falsehood to be combated. (Tw. N. Kin. iv. 3.)

(See No. 610 for quotations from later plays.)

268. Magna civitas, magna solitudo. (A great city or state is a great solitude.)

But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little magna civitas, magna solitudo. (Ess. Of Friendship.)

The poor deer...
"Tis right,' quoth he;

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Anon, a careless herd

Full of the pasture, jumps along by him,

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And never stays to greet him: 'Ay,' quoth Jaques,

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;

"Tis just the fashion.' (As Y. L. ii. 1, 44-60.)

I, measuring his affections by my own,

That most are busy when they're most alone. (Rom. Jul. i. 1.)

(See Tim. Ath. iv. 1, 30–40.)

Fol. 89.

269. Light gaines make heavy purses.

(Quoted Essay Of Ceremonies and Respects.)

270. He may be in my paternoster indeed,

Be sure he shall never be in

my creed.

For me, my lords, I love him not, nor fear him-there's my
As I am made without him, so I'll stand. (H. VII. ii. 2.)

creed.

271. Tanti causas-sciat illa furoris.-En. 5, 788. (She may know the causes of such furious wrath.)

Oth. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,
Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!
It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood. : .
Yet she must die. (Oth. v. 2.)

Cas. Dear General, I never gave you cause. (Ib.)

Pol. I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy

Mad let us grant him, then; and now remains

That we find out the cause of this effect,

Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause
I have a daughter. (Ham. ii. 2.)

Kath.

Alas! sir,

In what have I offended you? What cause

Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?

(Hen. VIII. ii. 4.)

272. What will you?

What's your will? (Tw. Gen. Ver. iii. 1, 3 ; L. L. L. iv. 1, 52.) What's your will with me? (1 Hen. IV. ii. 4.)

273. For the rest.

For the rest. (L. L. L. vi. 138; R. II. i. 1; 3 H. VI. iii. 3.) Well, to the rest. (2 H. VI. i. 4, 63.)

For the rest. (Hen. VIII. ii. 3.)

274. Is it possible?

Is 't possible. (Much Ado, i. 1, 120; twenty times.)

May this be possible. (John v. 6, 21.)

275. Not the lesse for that.

Ne'er the less. (Tam. Sh. i. 1.)

276. Allwaies provided (legal phrase).

Provided that you do no outrages. (Tw. G. Ver. iv. 1.)

Provided that he win her. (Tam. Sh. i. 2.)

Provided that. (R. II. iii. 3; Mer. Ven. iii. 2; Ham. v. 2; Per. v. 1; Cymb. i. 5.)

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278. For a tyme.

For a time. (R. II. i. 3.)

For the time. (Mer. V. v. i.)

For this time. (Tw. G. Ver. ii. 4, 29.)

(Also No. 1423.)

279. Will you see?

Wilt thou see? (1 H. IV. ii. 3.)

Will you see the players well bestowed? (Ham. ii. 2.)

See it be returned. (Tw. G. Ver. i. 2.)

See that at any hand,

And see thou read no other lectures to her. (Tam. Sh. i. 1.)

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280. What shall be the end?

To what end? (M. Ado, ii. 3.)

What's the end of study? (L. L. L. i. 1.)

To what end, my lord? (Ham. ii. 2; and Cymb. ii. 2.)

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This is Othello's ancient, as I take it. (b. v. 1.)

283. All this while.

Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear.

284. Of grace.

(Tw. G. Ver. ii. 3.)

(? French de grace.')

By God's grace. (Rich II. i. 3; 2 Hen. VI. i. 1, rep.; Rich. III.

ii. 3; Hen. V. i. 2.)

By Heaven's grace. (Ib. i. 3.)

By the grace of grace. (Macb. v. 7.)

For goodness' sake, consider what you do. (Hen. VIII. iii. 1.)

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As is a tired horse. (1 Hen. IV. iii. 1, and ib. iii. 1, 220.)

286. Let it not displease you.

Let it not displease thee. (T. Shrew, i. 1.)

You are not displeased with this? (Tit. And. i. 2.)

287. You put me in mynd.

Let me put in your mind. (R. III. i. 3, twice ; iv. 2.)

Heaven put it in thy mind. (2 Hen. IV. iv. 4.)

The bells of St. Bennet may put you in mind. (Tw. N. v. 1.)

Will you put me in mind? (Cor. v. 5.)

Bear you it mind. (Per. iv. 4, Gower.)

288. I object.

It is well objected. . . . This blot that they object against.

As is' in editions by Malone and Stevens.

'Leopold' editions is has been omitted.

(1 Hen. VI. ii. 5.)

In the Globe' and

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