ACT V. LOVE. Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of sighs and tears; It is to be all made of faith and service; It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, COMEDY OF ERRORS ACT II. MAN'S PRE-EMINENCE. THERE'S nothing, situate under heav'ns eye, But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky: The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls, Are their males' subject, and at their controls: Men, more divine, the masters of all these, Lords of the wide world, and wild wat'ry seas, Indued with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords: Then let your will attend on their accords. PATIENCE EASIER TAUGHT THAN PRACTISED. Patience, unmov'd, no marvel though she pause; They can be meek, that have no other cause. A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. DEFAMATION. I see, the jewel, best enamelled, Will lose his beauty; and though gold 'bides still, JEALOUSY. Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange, and frown; The time was once, when thou unurg'd would'st That never words were music to thine ear, SLANDER. For slander lives upon succession; ACT V. A WOMAN'S JEALOUSY MORE DEADLY THAN POISON. Unquiet meals make ill digestions, Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness? Thou say'st, his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls (Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair;, DESCRIPTION OF A BEGGARLY FORTUNE-TELLER. A hungry lean-fac'd villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller; And with no face, as 'twere outfacing me, OLD AGE. Though now this grained* face of mine be hid LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. ACT I. SELF-DENIAL. BRAVE conquerors!-for so you are, That war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires. VANITY OF PLEASURE. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. ON STUDY. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. *Furrowed, lined. FROST. An envious sneaping* frost, That bites the first born infants of the spring. A CONCEITED COURTIER. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, ACT IL BEAUTY. My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise; A merrier man, A MERRY MAN. Within the limit of becoming mirth, * Nipping. A ACT III. HUMOUROUS DESCRIPTION OF LOVE. O! And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip; very beadle to a humourous sigh: A critic; nay, a night-watch constable; This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy; Of trotting paritors‡-0 my little heart!And I to be a corporal of his field, And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop! ACT IV. SONNET. Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye Vows, for thee broke, deserve not punishment. Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love; Thy grace being gain'd, cures all disgrace in me. Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is: Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine, Exhal'st this vapour vow; in thee it is: *Hooded, veiled. † Petticoats. The officers of the spiritual courts who serve cita tions. |