beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say, if the importance* were joy, or sorrow: but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. A STATUTE. What was he, that did make it?-Sce, my lord, Would you not deem, it breath'd? and that thos veins Did verily bear blood?. Pol. Masterly done: The very life seems warm upon her lip. Leon. The fixure of her eye has motion in't Ast we are mock'd with art. Still, methinks There is an air comes from her; What fine chisei Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock aC, For I will kiss her. A WIDOW COMPARED TO A TURTLE. I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some wither'd bow; and there *The thing imported. ti. e. Though her eye be fixed, it seems to have moti☛ in it. + As if. BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE. PART II. KING JOHN. ACT I. NEW TITLES. GOOD den, sir Richard,-God-a-mercy, fellow; For your conversion.‡ Now your traveller,- The Pyrenean, and the river Po,) It draws towards supper in conclusion so. * Good evening. Change of condition. I Catechism. † Respectable. § My travelled fop. And fits the mounting spirits, like myself: That doth not smack of observation. ACT II. DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND. That pale, that white-fac'd shore, Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides, DESCRIPTION OF AN ENGLISH ARMY. His marches are expedient to this town, With ladies' faces, and fierce dragons' spleens,- COURAGE. By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence: For courage mounteth with occasion * Immediate, expeditious. The Goddess of Revenge. + Mischief. A BOASTER. What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath' DESCRIPTION OF VICTORY BY THE FRENCH. You men of Angiers, open wide your gates, And let young Arthur, duke of Bretagne, in; Who, by the hand of France, this day hath made Much work for tears in many an English mother, Whose sons lie scatter'd on the bleeding ground: Many a widow's husband grovelling lies, Coldly embracing the discolour'd earth; And victory, with little loss, doth play Upon the dancing banners of the French; Which are at hand, triumphantly display'd To enter conquerors. VICTORY DESCRIBED BY THE ENGLISH. Rejoice, you men of Angiers, ring your bells; Their armours, that march'd hence so silver bright, Our colours do return in those same hands A COMPLETE LADY. If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, POWERFUL EFFECTS OF SELF-INTEREST. Rounded† in the ear With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil, That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith; But the word maid,-cheats the poor maid of that; That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity, Commodity, the bias of the world: The world, who of itself is peised† well, ACT III. A WOMAN'S FEARS. Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frightening me, For I am sick, and capablet of fears; Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears, A widow, husbandless, subject to fears; A woman naturally born to fears; And though thou now confess, thou didst but jest, TOKENS OF GRIEF. What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head? Why dost thou look so sadly on my son? What means that hand upon that breast of thine: Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum, Like a proud river peering§ o'er his bounds? Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words? Then speak again; not all thy former tale, But this one word, whether thy tale be true. * Interest. † Poised, balanced |