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Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

184

His nature is too noble for the world :

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,

15-v. 2.

Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his

mouth:

What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent;

And being angry, does forget that ever

He heard the name of death.

185

Turn him to any cause of policy,

The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,

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Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,

The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,

And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,

To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences.

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So much is my poverty of spirit,

So mighty, and so many, my defects,

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That I would rather hide me from my greatness,

Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,

Than in my greatness covet to be hid,

And in the vapour of my glory smother'd.

187

20-iii. 6.

A sponge that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: He keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. 36-iv. 2.

188

He hath resisted law,

And therefore law shall scorn him farther trial

Than the severity of the public power,

Which he so sets at nought.

189

28-iii. 1.

So cowards fight when they can fly no farther;

So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;
So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers. 23-i. 4.

190

That face of his I do remember well;
Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd
As black as Vulcan, in the smoke of war:
A bawbling vessel was he captain of,
For shallow draught, and bulk, unprizable;
With which such scathful grapple did he make
With the most noble bottom of our fleet,
That very envy, and the tongue of loss,
Cried fame and honour on him.

191

4-v. 1.

To seem to affect the malice and displeasure of the people, is as bad as that which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love.

192

28-ii. 2.

The common people swarm like summer-flies:
And whither fly the gnats, but to the sun? 23-ii. 6.

193

They do prank them in authority,

Against all noble sufferance.

194

28-iii. 1.

How smooth and even they do bear themselves!

As if allegiance in their bosom sat,

Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.

195

He's loved of the distracted multitude,

20-ii. 2.

Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;

And, where 'tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,

But never the offence.

196

Look, as I blow this feather from my face,
And as the air blows it to me again,

Obeying with my wind when I do blow,
And yielding to another when it blows,
Commanded always by the greater gust;

36-iv. 3.

Such is the lightness of you common men. 23-iii. 1.

197

He, that depends

Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead,
And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust ye?

With every minute you do change a mind;

And call him noble, that was now your hate,
Him vile, that was your garland.

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Why, had your bodies

28-i. 1.

No heart among you? Or had you tongues, to cry
Against the rectorship of judgment?

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He that trusts you,

28-ii. 3.

Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;

Where foxes, geese: You are no surer, no,
Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,

Or hailstone in the sun.

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28-i. 1.

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize,
As the dead carcasses of unburied men

That do corrupt my air.

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What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,

28-iii. 3.

Make yourselves scabs?

28-i. 1.

202

You souls of geese,

That bear the shapes of men, how have you run

From slaves that apes would beat?

28-i. 4.

203

You are potently opposed; and with a malice
Of as great size. Ween* you of better luck,
I mean, in perjured witness, than your Master,†
Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived
Upon this naughty earth?

25-v. 1.

* Think.

† Christ.

204

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, good thing, to make it too common.

if they have

a

205

The clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and

19-i. 2.

turn it, and set a new nap upon it.

22-iv. 2.

206

17-ii. 3.

207

The caterpillars of the commonwealth.

Being not propp'd by ancestry (whose grace
Chalks successors their way), neither allied
To eminent assistants, but, spider-like,
Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note,
The force of his own merit makes his way;
A gift that Heaven gives for him.

....

I cannot tell

What Heaven hath given him, let some graver eye Pierce into that; but I can see his pride

Peep through each part of him: Whence has he that,

If not from hell?

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We must suggest the people, in what hatred

25-i. 1.

He still hath held them: that to his power, he would

Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders, and

Dispropertied their freedoms: holding them,

In human action and capacity,

Of no more soul, nor fitness for the world,

Than camels in their war; who have their provand

Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows

For sinking under them.

209

I love the people,

But do not like to stage me to their eyes:
Though it do well, I do not relish well
Their loud applause, and aves vehement:
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion,
That does affect it.

210

Let not the world see fear, and sad distrust,
Govern the motion of a kingly eye.

28-ii. 1.

5-i. 1.

16-v. 1.

211

Be great in act, as you have been in thought;
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow

Of bragging horror, so shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviours from the great,

Grow great by your example, and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution.

16-v. 1.

212

Show boldness and aspiring confidence.

16-v. 1.

213

Something, sure, of state,

Hath puddled his clear spirit: and, in such cases,

Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,

Though great ones are their object. 'Tis even so; For let our finger ache, and it indues

Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense

Of pain.

37-iii. 4.

214

Who is so gross,

That cannot see this palpable device?

Yet who so bold, but says he sees it not?
Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,

When such bad dealing must be seen in thought.

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For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them

Regard me as I do not flatter, and

Therein behold themselves: I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,

Which we ourselves havé plough'd for, sow'd, and

scatter'd,

By mingling them with us, the honour'd number;

Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that

Which they have given to beggars.

28-iii. 1.

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The man was noble,

But with his last attempt he wiped it out;
Destroy'd his country; and his name remains,
To the ensuing age, abhorr'd

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