What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust? He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! -Villain, be sure thou prov'st thy words -If thou dost slander her, and torture me, On horror's head horrors accumulate, ; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed, For nothing cans't thou to damnation add, Greater than that. Nay stay-thou should'st be honest, I think my wife is honest, and think she is not; I think that thou art just, and think thou art not; I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied! Iago. Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change. Whose icy current, and compulsive course Swallow them up-Now, by yond' marble heaven, I here engage my words. KITELY AND WIFE. Kite. What dost thou say?-doubt thee? So fixed and settled, that, wer't thou inclined Wife. But sure, my dear, A wife may moderately use these pleasures, Kite. And so she may; and I'll go with thee, child; Wife Why, were you ever so? She stabs me home [aside]-Jealous of thee! There's not the smallest spark remaining— My dear; There, there, now we are reconciled, Ha, ha! jealous!-I shall burst my sides with laughing : FORD-MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Has Page any brains? Has he any eyes? hath he any thinking; sure they sleep; he hath no use of them; Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty miles as easy as a cannon will shoot point blank twelve score; He pieces out his wife's inclination; he gives her folly motion, and advantage; and now she's going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A man may hear this shower sing in the wind!-and Falstaff's boy with her!--Good plots!-They are laid; and our revolted wives share damnation together. Well, I will take him ; then torture my wife, pluck the borrow'd veil of modesty from the so-seeming mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and wilful Actæon; and to these violent proceedings all my neighbours shall cry aim. The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me search: there I shall find Falstaff; I shall be rather praised for this than mock'd; for it is as positive as the earth is firm, that Falstaff is there: I will go. MINOR PASSIONS OR EMOTIONS OF THE MIND. RESPECT. OTHELLO'S APOLOGY. Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors, head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more, Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace; And little of this great world can I speak, More than 'pertains to feats of broil and battle; In speaking for myself: yet by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, (For such proceeding I am charged withal,) I won his daughter with. VENERATION. VENERATION (which is respect much raised) is nearly similarly expressed. They both, like Modesty or Submission, bend the body forward; level the eyes to the breast, if not to the feet, of the superior character. The voice is low; the tone submissive; and the words few. ADAM ADDRESSING THE ANGEL RAPHAEL. "Native of Heaven, (for other place Be over, and the sun more cool decline." Excess of veneration leads to awe, which is a mixture of gravity, respect, veneration, and admiration, chastened by dread or fear, and almost excluding all action. Adoration or worshipping, comprehends several articles, as Ascription, Confession, Contrition, Intercession, Praise, Petitioning, &c. The expression of which is various; the action little and the voice, submissive, timid, unequal, trembling, meek, and suppliant; but raised to a degree of cheerfulness in thanksgiving and praise. AWE. ON THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME TO MAN. Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world', The bell strikes one, we take no note of time, I hear the solemn sound. If heard aright, ADORATION. ADAM'S MORNING HYMN. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good! Thus wond'rous fair! Thyself how wond'rous then, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Him first, him last, him 'midst, and without end! Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn And when high moon hast gained, and when thou fall'st. And ye five hundred other wandering fires, that move His praise, who out of darkness called up light. TEACHING. HAMLET'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PLAYERS. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say,) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show, and noise; I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er doing Termagant; it out-herod's Herod: Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both first and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one, must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly; not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they have imitated humanity so abominably. ADVISING. Teaching and Advising require nearly the same manner of expression. In both, as well as in explaining, inculcating or giving orders, an air of superiority is assumed. The features are to be composed to an authoritative gravity. The eye steady, and open, the eyebrow a little drawn down over it; but not so much as to look surly or dogmatical. The tone of voice varying according as the subject and emphasis requires, of which latter a good deal is necessary in expressing matter of this sort. The pitch of the voice to be strong and clear; the articulation distinct; the utterance slow, and the manner peremptory. This is the proper manner of pronouncing the Commandments in the Communion Office, but which are too often spoken as prayers, than which nothing can be more unnatural. POLONIUS ADVISING LAERTES ON HIS TRAVELS. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou to character; Give thy thoughts no tongue, Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar, |