ADVERSITY,-continued.
And, when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,
The organs, though defunct and dead before,
Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move
With casted slough, and fresh legerity.

H. V. ii. 1.

In poison there is physic; and these news
Having been well, that would have made me sick;
Being sick, have in some measure made me well.
And as the wretch whose fever-weaken'd joints,
Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,
Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire.

Out of his keeper's arms; even so my limbs,
Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd with grief,
Are thrice themselves.

ADVICE (See also CAUTION),

Fasten your ear to my advisings.

H. IV. PT. II. 1. 1.

M. M. iii 1.

wear not;

Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.

Take heed, be wary how you place your words.

K. L. iii 4.

H. VI. PT. 1. iii. 2.

Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

Lo wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

Keep thy pen from lenders' books, and fiend.

K. L. ii. 4.

C. iii. 2.

A. W. i. 1 defy the foul

K. L. iii. 4.

Let not the creaking of shoes, nor the rustling of silks, betray thy poor heart to women.

TO A YOUNG WOMAN.

Fear it, my dear sister;

And keep you in the rear of your affection,
Out of the shot and danger of desire.
The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
If she unmask her beauty to the moon;

K. L. iii. 4.

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ADVICE,-continued.

Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes :
The canker galls the infants of the spring,
Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd;
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear;
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
TO A YOUNG MAN.

Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel:
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each unhatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in,
Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.
Give ev'ry man thine ear, but few thy voice:

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man:-
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all,-To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell:-my blessing season this in thee!
TO A STATESMAN.

Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition;
By that sin fell the angels; how can man then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by't?

H. i. 3.

H. i. 3.

Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,

To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not:

Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,

Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell,

Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.

ADULATION (See also FLATTERY).

You shout me forth

In acclamations hyperbolical;

As if I lov'd my little should be dieted
In praises sauc'd with lies.

H. VIII. iii. 2.

C...

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that
are written down old, with all the characters of age? Have
you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a
white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? Is
not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin dou-
ble? your wit single? and every part about you blasted
with antiquity? and will you yet call yourself young? O
fye, Sir John.
H. IV. PT. II. i. 2.

Youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness.

Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze up;
Yet hath my night of life some memory,
My wasting lamp some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.

H. iv. 7.

C. E. v. 1.

I would there were no age between ten and three-andtwenty; or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing between but wenching, wronging the ancientry, stealing, and fighting. W. T. iii. 3.

His silver hairs

Will purchase us a good opinion,

And buy men's voices to commend our deeds:
It shall be said his judgment rul'd our hands;
Our youths, and wildness, shall no whit appear,
But all be buried in his gravity.

As you are old and reverend you should be wise.

When age is in the wit is out.

Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age,
And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

M. A. iii. 5.

H. VI. PT. I. iii. 2.

AGE AND FRAILTY.

The blood of youth burns not with such excess
As gravity's revolt to wantonness.

L. L. v. 2.

Thou should'st not have been old before thou had'st been

wise.

K. L. i. 5.

AND GRIEF.

I am old now,

And these same crosses spoil me.

O grief hath chang'd me since you saw me last;
And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,
Ilze written strange defeatures in my face.

What st. is this? what tumult's in the heavens ?
Whence meth this alarum, and the noise?

What's t business,

K. L. v. 3.

C. E. v. 1.

H. ii. 2.

M. W. ii. 2.

T. C. i. 3.

H. VI. PT. I. i. 4

ALLEGIANCE.

Your highness' part

Is to receive our duties: and our duties

M. ii. 3.

O. ii. 3.

Are to your arone and state, children and servants;
Which do bu. what they should, by doing every thing
Safe toward ur love and honour.

AMAZEMENT.

M. i. 4.

But the cha ges I perceived in the king and Camillo, were very note, of admiration: they seemed almost, with staring on one nother, to tear the cases of their eyes; there was speech in Leir dumbness, language in their very gesture; they looke 1, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed A notable passion of wonder appeared in them but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow: but in the extremity of one it must be. W. T. v. 2.

AMBITION.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

H. ii. 2.
I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is
but a shadow's shadow.
H. ii. 2.

'Tis a common proof

That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Where to the climber upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,

Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.

Ye gods, it doth amaze me,

A man of such a feeble temper should

So get the start of the majestic world,
And bear the palm alone.

What see'st thou there? King Henry's diadem,
Enchas'd with all the honours of the world?
If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face,
Until thy head be circled with the same.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold :-
What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine :
And, having both together heav'd it up,
We'll both together lift our heads to heaven;
And never more abase our sight so low,

As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground,

That is a step,

J. C. ii. 4.

J. C. i. 2.

H. VI. PT. II. i. 2.

On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies.

M. i. 4.

M. i. 7.

The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.

Follow I must, I cannot go before,

H. VIII. i. 1.

While Glo'ster bears this base and humble mind.
Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,

I would remove these tedious stumbling blocks,
And smooth my way upon their headless necks.

H. VI. PT. II. i. 2.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;
Nor can one England brook a double reign,
Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.

II. IV. PT. 1 v. 4.