428

Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.

429

28-iv. 2.

"Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.

The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then must we look to receive from his age, not alone the imperfections of long-engrafted condition, but, therewithal, the unruly way wardness, that infirm and choleric years bring with them.

430

His discontents are unremovably

Coupled to nature.

431

I see no more in you, than in the ordinary

34-i. 1.

27-v. 2.

Of nature's sale-work.

432

10-iii. 5.

A man, whose blood

Is very snow-broth; one who never feels

The wanton stings and motions of the sense. 5-i. 5.

433

How green are you, and fresh in this old world!

434

16-iii. 4.

Things small as nothing, for request's sake only,
He makes important: Possess'd he is with greatness;
And speaks not to himself, but with a pride
That quarrels at self-breath; imagined worth
Holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse,
That, 'twixt his mental and his active parts,
He in commotion rages,

And batters down himself: What should I

say ?

He is so plaguy proud, that the death tokens of it
Cry No recovery.

26-ii. 3.

435

No care, no stop ! so senseless of expense,
That he will neither know how to maintain it,
Nor cease his flow of riot : Takes no account
How things go from him; nor resumes no care
Of what is to continue : Never mind
Was to be so unwise, to be so kind.
What shall be done? He will not hear, till feel.

27-ii, 2.

436 Alas, he is shot through the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft. *

35-ii. 4.

437 There should be small love 'mongst these sweet

knaves, And all this court'sy! The strain of man's bred out Into baboon and monkey.t

27-i. 1.

438 You smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose.

13–ii. 1. 439

He would make his will Lord of his reason.

30-iii. 11.

440 Your wisdom is consumed in confidence. 29-ii. 2.

441 What would you have me? go to the wars, would you ? where a man may serve seven years for the loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to buy him a wooden one.

33-iv, 6.

442 They should be good men; their affairsf asg righteous : But all hoods make not monks.

25-iii. 1.

* Arrow.

† Man is degenerated; his strain or lineage is worn down to a monkey. | Professions.

§ As, i. e. are.

443

There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.

444

37-iii. 3.

Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears?
Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I not heard the sea, puff'd up with winds,
Rage like an angry boar, chafed with sweat?
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
Have I not in the pitched battle heard

Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?
And do you tell me of a woman's tongue,

That gives not half so great a blow to the ear,
As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?
Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs.*

445

12-i. 2.

I know not why I am so sad;
It wearies me; you say, it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;

And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.

9-i. 1.

DEPRAVED AND HYPOCRITICAL
CHARÁCTERS.

446

Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
According to the gift which bounteous nature
Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive
Particular addition,* from the bill

That writes them all alike: and so of men.

447

15-iii. 1.

Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile;
And cry, content, to that which grieves my heart;
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.

448

23-iii. 2.

Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:
For thou thyself hast been a libertine,
As sensual as the brutish sting† itself;
And all the embossed sores, and headed evils,
That thou with license of free foot hast caught,
Would'st thou disgorge into the general world.

449

Swear his thought over
By each particular star in heaven, and
By all their influences, you may as well
Forbid the sea for to obey the moon,
As or, by oath, remove, or counsel, shake
The fabric of his folly; whose foundation
Is piled upon his faith, and will continue
The standing of his body.

450

10-ii. 7.

13-i. 2.

451

Thy tyranny
Together working with thy jealousies,
Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle
For girls of nine !-O think, what they have done,
And then run mad, indeed ; stark mad! for all
Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.

13-iii. 2.

452 I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true cause the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of words, that come with such more than impudent sauciness from you, can thrust me from a level consideration.

19-ii. 1.

453
Can you not see? or will you not observe
The strangeness of his alter'd countenance ?
With what a majesty he bears himself;
How insolent of late he is become,
How proud, peremptory, and unlike himself?
We know the time, since he was mild and affable.

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*

*

But meet him now, and be it in the morn,
When every one will give the time of day,
He knits his brow, and shows an angry eye,
And passeth by with stiff, unbowed knee. 22-iii. 1.

454
O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be,
When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case ?*
Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,
That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow.

4-v. 1. 455

Over-proud, And under-honest; in self-assumption greater, Than in the note of judgment.

26-ii. 3. 456

O foolish youth ! Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee.

19-iv. 4. * Skin.