hath learned no wit by nature nor art, may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred. Character of an honest and simple Shepherd. Sir, I am a true labourer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's lapness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze, and my lamb's suck. Description of a Lover. A lean cheek; which you have not a blue eye, and sunken which you ; have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not a beard neglected; which you have not :-but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue :-Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation. But you are no such man: you are rather pointdevice in your accoutrements; as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any other. Real Passion dissembled. Think not I love him, though I ask for him ; *A spirit averse to conversation. § Silly. † Estate. His leg is but so-so; and yet 'tis well: [ence Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the differ- He said, mine eyes were black, and my hair black; But that's all one; omittance is no quittance. ACT IV. The Varieties of Melancholy. I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation: nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice ;* nor the lover's, which is all these. Marriage alters the Tempers of both Sexes. Say a day, without the ever: no, no, Orlando ; men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more clamorous than a parrot against rain; more new-fangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires than a monkey; I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when *Trifling. you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep. Cupid's Parentage. No, that same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of thought,* conceived of spleen, and born of madness; that blind rascally boy, that abuses every one's eyes because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I am in love. Oliver's description of his danger when sleeping. Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age, And high top bald with dry antiquity, A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself, Lay couching, head on ground, with cat-like watch, : To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. ACT V. Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of sighs and tears :- All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, * Melancholy. 25 COMEDY OF ERRORS. ACT II. Man's Pre-eminence. THERE'S nothing, situate under Heaven's eyes Patience easier taught than practised. But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, I see the jewel, best enamelled, Will lose his beauty; and though gold 'bides still, Wear gold; and so no man, that hath a name, Jealousy. Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown; The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow That never touch well-welcome to thy hand, Slander. For slander lives upon succession; ACT V. A woman's jealousy more deadly than poison. The venom clamours of a jealous woman Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing; And thereof comes it that his head is light. Thou say'st, his meat was sauced by thy upbraiding. Unquiet meals make ill digestions, Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness ? (Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair); Description of a beggarly Fortune-teller. A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller: |