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Wherefore blush you now? What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become!"-2 Hen. IV. ii. 2.

"The bloody Parliament shall this be called,
Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be King;
And bashful Henry depos'd, whose cowardice
Hath made us by-words to our enemies."

-3 Hen. VI. i. 1.

BEAUTY with Grace.

"In beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour."-Ess. of Beauty.

"The heaven such grace did lend her,

That she might admired be."

-Two Gent. Ver. iv. 2 (Song).

"Your wondrous rare description, noble earl,
Of beauteous Margaret, hath astonished me:
Her virtues graced with eternal gifts," &c.

-1 Hen. VI. v. 5.

BEAUTY in Expression or Favour.

"That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life."— Ess. of Beauty.

"Run, run, Orlando: carve on every tree
The fair, the chaste, the unexpressive she."

-As You Like It iii. 1.

"Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness;
Love doth to her eyes repair

To help him of his blindness,
And, being helped, inhabits there."

-Two Gent. Ver. iv. 2 (Song).

BEAUTY with Goodness.

"Virtue is best in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect.”—Ess. of Beauty.

"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good, the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace being the soul of your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever fair."-Measure for Measure iii. 1.

“As fair as good—a kind of hand-to-hand comparison." -Cymb. i. 5, 72.

Audrey: "Would you have me honest?

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Touch: "No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar."

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"Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty."

-Winter's Tale v. 1.

(See Rich. III. iv. 4, 204-209; As You Like It, iii. 5, 37-43; Tam. Sh. ii. 1, 190-194).

BEAUTY and Fortune. (See Virtue.)

"Virtue is like a rich stone plainly set. Neither is it almost seen that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue; as if Nature were rather busy not to err than in labour to produce excellency."-Ess. of Beauty.

"It cannot be denied but outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favour, opportunity," &c.--Ess. of Fortune.

Ros.: ".

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Fortune's favours are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women."

Cel.: "'Tis true: for those she makes fair she scarce makes honest ; and those that she makes honest she makes very illfavouredly."

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Ros.: Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to Nature's. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature."-Love's Labour's Lost ii. 1, and iv. 1.

"I see what thou wert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature thy friend."-Mer. Wiv. iii. 3.

BEAUTY of Mind and Body, Grace and Health.

"The greatest ornament is the inward beauty of the mind. The gifts or excellencies of the mind are the same as those of the body: beauty, health, strength. Beauty of the mind is showed in graceful and acceptable forms, and sweetness of behaviour."-Advice to Rutland.

"Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness."

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-Two Gent. Ver. iv. 2 (Song).

Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate
Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate:
Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all

That happiness and prime can happy call."

-All's Well ii. 1.

66 Why, have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, the spice and salt that season a man?"Tr. Cres. i. 2.

"Such as she is in beauty, virtue, birth

Is the young Dauphin, every way complete," &c.

"If the Dauphin .

-John ii. 2.

can in this book of beauty read I love. (I'll) make her rich

In titles, honours and promotions,

As she is in beauty, education, blood.”—John ii. 2.

"You that have so fair parts of woman on you,
Hath, too, a woman's heart, which ever yet
Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty,

Which to say sooth are blessings . .

gifts."

Hen. VIII. ii. 3.

BEHAVIOUR Like a Garment.

"Behaviour is like a garment; and it is easy to make a comely garment for a body that is itself well-proportioned; whereas a deformed body can never be helped by tailor's art, but the counterfeit will appear."-Advice to Rutland.

"Behaviour seemeth to me as a garment of the mind," and to have the conditions of a garment. For it ought to be made in fashion; it ought not to be too curious; it ought to be shaped so as to set forth any good making of the mind, and hide any deformity; and, above all, it ought not to be too straight or restrained for exercise and motion."-De Aug. viii. 1.

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there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is in

his clothes."—All's Well ii. 5.

"Here the clothes and not the manners make the man."-Comp. Lear i. 2, 53-61; Cymb. ii. 3, 135, &c., iv. 2, 80-83.

"So when this loose behaviour I throw off,
And pay the debt I never promised,

By how much better than my word I am."

-1 Hen. IV. i. 1.

(Comp. 2 Hen. IV. v. 2, 44, 45.)

"He's as disproportioned in his manners

As in his shape."—Temp. v. 1.

"Hence, heap of wrath, foul, indigested lump;

As crooked in thy manners, as thy shape!"

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-2 Hen. VI. v. 2.

-Com. Err. iii. 2.

Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger."

“Poor I am, stale, a garment out of fashion;
I must be ripped to pieces. With me

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"Men's behaviour should be like their apparel, not too strict or point-device, but free for exercise or motion."Ess. of Ceremonies.

"Armado is a most illustrious wight,

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A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight . . .' "His humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed ... his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too picked, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate. . I abhor such insociable and point-device

companions."-Love's Labour's Lost i. 1, and v. 1.

Marie: "Malvolio's coming down this walk: he has been yonder in the sun, practising behaviour to his own shadow. Observe him for the love of mockery

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Mal.: ". . . I will wash off gross acquaintance. I will be point-device, the very man! . . I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered," &c.-Twelfth Night ii. 5. "New honours come upon him,

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BLAME.

Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould,

But with the aid of use."-Macb. i. 3.

Well, may you see things well done there! Adieu!

Lest cur old robes sit easier than our new."

"The antique and well-noted face

-Macb. ii. 4.

Of plain old form is much disfigured
For putting on so new a fashioned robe."

-John iv. 2.

"Epictetus used to say (1), That one of the vulgar, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; (2) a novice in philosophy blames himself; (3) and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other."-Apophthegms, 250, 233.

1. Charles:

"Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?
Did'st thou at first, to flatter us withal,

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