Would lose their names, and fo would Justice too. Then every thing includes itfelf in power; And appetite (an universal wolf, So doubly feconded with will and power) Conduct in War fuperior to Action. That do contrive how many hands fhall strike, They call this bed-work mapp'ry, closet war: rg CĂ For the great fwing and rudeness of his poize, They place before his hand that made the engine; By reafon guide his execution. SCENE VI. Refpect. I ask, that I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning, when the coldly eyes The youthful Phoebus. ACT II. SCENE III. DOUBT. The wound of peace is furety, Surety fecure; but modeft doubt is call'd The mentator is to do justice to his author, it feems to me, highly improper to stuff one's obfervations with the gall of private animoaties. The beacon of the wife; the tent that fearches SCENE IV. Pleafure and Revenge. Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice No, Pandarus: I ftalk about her door Propos'd for the deferver! O, gentle Pandarus, * I'm giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is fo fweet, That it inchants my fenfe: what will it be, That I fhall lofe diftinction in my joys; The flying enemy. My heart beats thicker than a fev'rous pulfe; Like vaffalage at unawares encountring M 3 2 SCENE SCENE V. Conftancy in Love protested. Troilus. True fwains in love fhall in the world to come Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhimes, Want fimilies: truth, tired with iteration, As truths authentick author to be cited,) Cref. Prophet may you be ! If I be falfe, or fwerve a hair from truth, And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up, From false to falfe, among false maids in love, As air, as water, as wind, as fandy earth; (4) As plantage, &c.] The Oxford editor obferves, "It was heretofore the prevailing opinion, that the production and growth of plants depended much upon the influences of the moon: and the rules and directions given for fowing, planting, grafting, pruning, bad reference generally to the changes, the increafe, or waining of the moon. 2 SCENE SCENE VII. Pride cures Pride. Pride hath no other glass To fhew itself, but pride: for fupple knees arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. Feed Greatness, contemptible when it declines. 'Tis certain; greatnefs, once fall'n out with fortune, Muft fall out with men too: what the declined is, He fhall as foon read in the eyes of others, As feel in his own fall: for men, like butterflies, Hath honour, but is honour'd by thofe honours Honour continu'd Acts necessary to preferve its Luftre. Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. (A great-fiz'd monfter of ingratitudes) Thofe fcraps are good deeds paft, which are devour'd As faft as they are made, forgot as foon As done: perfeverance keeps honour bright: M 4 Where (5) Do] This is commonly read doth; but fo, is not Englife. Which, in the 3d line preceding, is the nominative cafe, and plural: the reft fhould all be read as in a parenthesis. I find, the Oxford editor is the only one that reads it properly. Where one but goes abreaft; keep then the path; That one by one pursue; if you give way, "That flightly shakes his parting guest by the hand; For beauty, wit, high birth, defert in fervice One touch of nature makes the whole world kin More land than they will give to gold o'er dufted: SCENE VIII. Love Shook off by a Soldier. Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloofe his am'rous fold; And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Befhook to air. ACT |