LOVE INCREASED BY ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS IT. Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, As seek to quench the fire of love with words. Luc. I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire; But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. Jul. The more thou dam'st* it up, the more it burns; The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, He overtaketh in his pilgrimage; And so by many winding nooks he strays, And make a pastime of each weary step, A FAIFHFUL AND CONSTANT LOVER. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart; His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. ACT III. PRESENTS PREVAIL WITH WOMEN. Win her with gifts, if she respect not words; Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, More than quick words do move a woman's mind. A LOVER'S BANISHMENT. And why not death, rather than living torment? To die, is to be banish'd from myself: And Silvia is myself: banished from her, BEAUTY PETITIONING IN VAIN. Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom, (Which, unreserv'd, stands in effectual force,) A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears: Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd; With them, upon her knees, her humble self; Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them, As if but now they waxed pale for wo: But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire. HOPE. Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts. LOVE COMPARED TO A FIGURE ON ICE. This weak impress of love is as a figure 'Trenched in ice; which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. THREE THINGS IN MAN DISLIKED BY FEMALES. The best way is to slander Valentine THE POWER OF POETRY WITH FEMALES. Say, that upon the altar of her beauty * Cut. Write till your ink be dry: and with your tears For Orpheus' lute was strung with poet's sinews; ACT IV. THE POWER OF ACTION. At that time I made her weep a-good,* ACT V. A LOVER IN SOLITUDE. How use doth breed a habit in a man! And to the nightingale's complaining notes, LOVE UNRETURNED. What dangerous action, stood it next to death, Would I not undergo for one calm look? O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approv❜d,* When women cannot love where they're belov'd. INFIDELITY IN A FRIEND. Who should be trusted now, when one's right hand Is perjur'd to the bosom? Proteus, I am sorry, I must never trust thee more, REPENTANCE. Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth. INCONSTANCY IN MAN. O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect: that one error WINTER'S TALE. ACT I. YOUTHFUL INNOCENCE. WE were, fair queen, Two lads, that thought there was no more behind, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did frisk i' the sun ven 1 Boldly, Not guilty; the imposition cleared, Felt, experienced. † Setting aside original sin. FONDNESS OF A FATHER FOR HIS CHILD. Leon. Are you so fond of your young prince as we Do seem to be of ours? Pol. If at home, sir, He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter: JEALOUSY. Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? REGICIDES DETESTABLE. To do this deed, Promotion follows: If I could find example ACT II. KNOWLEDGE SOMETIMES HURTFUL. There may be in the cup A spidert steep'd, and one may drink: depart, * Disorders of the eye. † Spiders were esteemed poisonous in our author's time. |