Would lose their names, and so would Justice too. And last, eat up itself. Conduct in War Superior to Action. The still and mental parts, That do contrive how many hands shall strike, 1 They call this bed-work mapp'ry, closet war: CA So that the ram that batters down the wall, L For the great fwing and rudeness of his poize, By reason guide his execution. SCENE VI. Respect. I ask, that I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning, when she coldly eyes The youthful Phœbus... ACT II. SCENE III. DOUBT. The wound of peace is furety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd L 1 The mentator is to do justice to his author, it feems to me, highly improper to stuff ne's observations with the gall ties of private animo 1 : The beacon of the wife; the tent that searches SCENE IV. Pleafure and Revenge. Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice No, Pandarus: I stalk about her door Propos'd for the deserver! O, gentle Pandarus, And fly with me to Creffid: * ** I'm giddy; expectation whirls me round. * That it inchants my fenfe: what will it be, My heart beats thicker than a fev'rous pulse; The eye of majesty. M 3 SCENE SCENE V. Constancy in Love protested. Troilus. True swains in love shall in the world to come Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhimes, Cres. Prophet may you be! (4) As plantage, &c.] The Oxford editor observes, "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, had reference generally to the changes, the increase, or waining of the moon." SCENE : SCENE VII. Pride cures Pride. Pride hath no other glass Greatness, contemptible when it declines. 'Tis certain; greatness, once fall'n out with fortune, Must fall out with men too: what the declined is, He shall as foon read in the eyes of others, As feel in his own fall: for men, like butterflies, Shew not their mealy wings but to the summer; And not a man, for being fimply man, Hath honour, but is honour'd by those honours That are without him as place, riches, favour, Prizes of accident as oft as merit; Which, when they fall, (as being flipp'ry standers) Honour continu'd Acts necessary to preferve its Luftre. Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. (A great-fiz'd monster of ingratitudes) Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as foon As done: perseverance keeps honour bright: M 4 : Where (5) Do] This is commonly read doth; but so, is not English. Which, in the 3d line preceding, is the nominative cafe, and plural: the rest should all be read as in a parenthesis. I find, the Oxford editor is the only one that reads it properly. Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path, That one by one pursue; if you give way, $ 1 'That flightly shakes his parting guest by the hand; Grafps in the comer; welcome ever smiles, For beauty, wit, high birth, desert in service One touch of nature makes the whole world kin; 24 SCENE VIII. Love shook off by a Soldier. Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his am'rous fold; |