A FATHER THE BEST GUEST AT HIS SON'S NUPTIALS. Pol. Methinks, a father is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest That best becomes the table. Pray you, once more: is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid With age, and altering rheums? Can he speak? hear? Know man from man? dispute his own estate?* No, good sir: Flo. Pol. Something unfilial: Reason, my son Should choose himself a wife: but as good reason, But fair posterity,) should hold some counsel RURAL SIMPLICITY. I was not much afeard. for once, or twice, LOVE CEMENTED BY PROSPERITY, BUT LOOSENED BY ADVERSITY. Prosperity's the very bond of love; Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. ACT V. WONDER, PROCEEDING FROM SUDDEN JOY. There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: A notable passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest *Talk over his affairs. 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?-See, my lord, Would you not deem, it breath'd? and that those veins The very life seems warm upon her lip. Leon. The fixure of her eye has motion in'tt Ast we are mock'd with art. Still, methinks There is an air comes from her; What fine chisel Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, 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. te. Though her eye be fixed, it seems to have motion in it. + As if. 3 BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE. PART II. KING JOHN. ACT I. NEW TITLES. GOOD den,* sir Richard,-God-a-mercy, fellow;- For And talking of the Alps, and Appenines; It draws towards supper in conclusion so. * Good evening. Change of condition. Il Catechism. † Respectable. § My travelled fop. And fits the mounting spirits, like myself: 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, His forces strong, his soldiers confident. With him along is come the mother-queen, An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife; With her her niece, the lady Blanch of Spain; With them a bastard of the king deceas'd: And all the unsettled humors of the land,Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, With ladies' faces, and fierce dragons' spleens,Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes here. In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits, Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er, Did never float upon the swelling tide, To do offence and scath‡ in Christendom. The interruption of their churlish drums Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand. 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, Whose veins bound richer blood than lady Blanch? POWERFUL EFFECTS OF SELF-INTEREST. Roundedt in the ear With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil, |