Speaking in deeds, and deedless* in his tongue;
Not soon provoked, nor being provoked, soon calm'd:
His heart and hand both open and both free;
For what he has he gives, what thinks he shews:
Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty,
Nor dignifies an impair thought with breath:
Manly as Hector, but more dangerous;
For Hector, in his blaze of wrath, subscribes‡
To tender objects; but he, in heat of action,
Is more vindicative than jealous love.

Hector in Battle.

I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft, Labouring for destiny, make cruel way, [thee, Through ranks of Greekish youth: and I have seen As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed, Despising many forfeits and subduements,

When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i' the air,
Not letting it decline on the declined ;§

That I have said to some my standers by,
Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life!

And I have seen thee, pause, and take thy breath,
When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'd thee in,
Like an Olympian wrestling.

Achilles surveying Hector.

Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body Shall I destroy him? Whether there, there, or there? That I may give the local wound a name; And make distinct the very breach whereout Hector's great spirit flew answer me heavens !

ACT V.

Rash Vows.

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish|| vows,

No boaster.
Yields, gives way.

+ Unstable to his character.
Foolish.

§ Fallen.

They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

Honour more dear than Life.

Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate : Life every man holds dear; but the dear man Holds honour far more precious dear* than life. Pity to be discarded in War.

For the love of all the gods,

Let's leave the hermit pity with our mother; And when we have our armours buckled on, The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords. * Valuable.

INDEX.

PAGE

ACHILLES described by Ulysses, 356, surveying Hector 367
Action, the power of, 93, to be carried on with resolution 177
Adversity, advantages of, 15, the trial of man
Advice, 9, to a son going on his travels

Affectation in words

Affection, natural, allied to love

......

Age, old, 27, 235, despised

Ages, the seven, a description of

........

352

229

52

85

303

20

181

Allegiance, firm, described

Ambition jealous of a too successful friend, 193, clothed

in specious humility

Ambitious love

Anarchy, the mischiefs of

Anger described, 177, external effects of.......
Antony Marc, his vices and virtues, 188, his speech to
Cleopatra at his return with victory, 195, his despond-
ency, 195, his reflections on his faded glory, ib. his
address to the corpse of Cæsar, 258, his speech to the
conspirators, ib., funeral oration of, 260, his charac-
ter of Brutus

Army, routed, description of one...

Arthur, pathetic speeches of, to Hubert

182

270

76

147

Assignation

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Aufidius, his hatred to Coriolanus

Authority, abuse of, 33, the privilege of

Bargains, punctuality in

Bawd, the practices of one, condemned.

Beauty, 15, 28, virtuous, the power of, 37, a scornful

and satirical one, 66, petitioning in vain, 92, descrip-
tion of a

Birth, high

Boaster

.....

Bolingbroke's public entry into Loudon described

Boy, description of a beautiful one

Braggart, 220, a cowardly one

Braggarts, talking.

Brawler, picture of one....

Bribery, honest

321

273

146

64

170

106

122

....

269

Brutus and Cassius, tent scene between, 264, the part-
ing of...

Buckingham, Duke of, his prayer for the king........ 173
Cæsar, his dislike of Cassius

Caliban, curses of, 74, 76, his exultation after having
attempted the chastity of Miranda, 75, his promises
Calumny

Cassius, his contempt for Cæsar

Ceremony insincere

Christmas-time, reverence paid to

Churchman, description of one
Clarence's dream in the Tower .....

251

77

239

253

264

.13, 208

43

225

186

170

Cleopatra, her solicitude on the absence of Antony, 190,

her sailing down the Cydnus described, ib., her infi-

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nite power of pleasing, 191, her supposed death, de-
scription of, 196, her reflections on the death of An-
tony, ib., her dream, and description of Antony, 197,
her speech on applying the asp ....

198

83

Cominius, his praise of Coriolanus in the senate...... 202
Compassion and clemency superior to revenge
Conduct in war superior to action

........

355

Conscience, 177, guilty, 81, the death-bed horrors of,
160, a good one described, 159, the struggles of, 113,
a murderer's account of

Consideration..

Consolation under banishment

Conspiracy, horrors of, 109, dreadful till executed, 256,

Brutus's apostrophe to

Contemplation, zealous, described

Content, perfect...

172

115

117

256

174

307

135

81

Counsel of no weight in misery.

Contention

Continence before marriage....

Cordelia, her speech on the ingratitude of her sisters
Coriolanus, an imaginary description of his warring,
200, character of, 203, his abhorrence of flattery, 204,
his detestation of the vulgar, 205, his prayer for his

son...

Countenance, a guilty one described

281

208

68

158

Country, an oppressed one.......

299

Courage, 106, in youth

...

14

Courtier, noble, character of a, 10, a conceited one,

28, finical, description of one by Hotspur..

Crown, reflections on a, 139, the transports of a...... 162
Cruelty, dissuasions from exercising

256