And yet partake no venom; for his knowledge The abhor'd ingredient to his eye, make known ELOQUENCE OF SILENT INNOCENCE. The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. EXPOSING AN INFANT. Come on, poor babe; Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens, ACT III. INNOCENCE. Innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience. DESPAIR OF PARDON. But, O thou tyrant! Do not repent these things; for they are heavier DESCRIPTION OF A GHOST APPEARING IN A DREAM. I have heard (but not believ'd) the spirits of the dead May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother * Heavings. Sometimes her head on one side, some another: So fill❜d and so becoming: in pure white robes, My cabin where I lay: thrice bow'd before me: There weep, and leave it crying; and, for the babe Iprythee, callt; for this ungentle business, I did in time collect myself; and thought I will be squar'd by this. Poor wretch, THE INFANT EXPOSED. That, for thy mother's fault, art thus expos'd The day frowns more and more; thou art like to have A lullaby too rough. A CLOWN'S DESCRIPTION OF A WRECK. I would, you did but see how it chafes, how it rages, how it takes up the shore! but that's not to the point: O, the most pitious cry of the poor souls! sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em: now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast; and anon swallowed with yest and froth, as you'd thrust a cork into a hogshead. And then for the land service, To see how the bear tore out his shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help, and said his name was An tigonus, a nobleman;-But to make an end of the ship:-to see how the sea flap-dragoned* it:-but first, how the poor souls roared, and the sea mocked them; and how the poor gentleman roared, and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than the sea, or weather. ACT IV. A GARLAND FOR OLD MEN. Reverend sirs, For you there's rosemary, and rue; these keep NATURE AND ART. Per. Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Pol. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them? Fort I have heard it said, There is an art, which, in their piedness, shares Pol. Say, there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race; This is an art Which does mend nature,-change it rather: but The art itself is nature. A GARLAND FOR MIDDLE-AGED MEN. I'll not put *Swallowed. Likeness and smell. Because that. The dibble* in earth to set one slip of them; This youth should say, 'twere well; and only there- Desire to breed by me.-Here's flowers for you; The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, A GARLAND FOR YOUNg men. Cam. I should leave grazing, were I of your flock, And only live by gazing. Per. Out, alas! You'd be so lean, that blasts of January Would blow you through and through.-Now my I would, I had some flowers o' the spring, that might Your maidenheads growing:-0 Proserpina, That come before the swallow dares, and take A LOVER'S COMMENDATION. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too: When you do dance, I wish you Nothing but that; move still, still so, and own So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens. TRUE LOVE. He says, he loves my daughter: I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon PRESENTS LIGHTLY REGARDED BY REAL LOVERS. Pol. How now, fair shepherd? Your heart is full of something, that does take To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd Flo. *Bought, trafficked. † Put to difficulties. The sieve used to separate flour from bran is called a bolting-cloth. |