LOWLINESS OF MIND. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, But graciously to know I am no better. Ang. Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright, When it doth tax itself. TEMPORAL. FAR BETTER THAN ETERNAL DEATH. Better it were, a brother died at once, Than that a sister by redeeming him, Should die for ever. WOMEN'S FRAILTY. Nay, women are frail too. Isab. Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves; Which are as easy broke as they make forms. ACT III. HOPE. The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. REFLECTIONS ON THE VANITY OF LIFE. Reason thus with life, If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep; a breath thou art, (Servile to all the skiey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Are nurs'd by baseness: thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork ⚫ mpressions. And that thou oft provok'st: yet grossly fear'st Do curse the gout, serpigo,† and the rheum, But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Of palsied eld; and when thou art old, and rich, THE TERRORS OF DEATH MOST IN APPREHENSION O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, RESOLUTION FROM A SENSE OF HONOUR, Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness? If I must die, *Affects, affections. + Old age. + Leprous eruptions, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms. THE HYPOCRISY OF ANGELO. There my father's grave Did utter forth a voice! Yes, thou must die: In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,- THE TERRORS OF DEATH Death is a fearful thing. Isab. And shamed life a hateful. Claud. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot: This sensible warm motion to become The weariest and most loathed worldly life, To what we fear of death. VIRTUE AND GOODNESS. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. A BAWD. The evil that thou causest to be done, From their abominable and beastly touches So stinkingly depending? Go, mend, go, mend. ACT IV. SONG. Take, oh take, those lips away, GREATNESS SUBJECT TO CENSURF O place and greatness, millions of false yes, Are stuck upon thee! volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings! thousand 'scapes* of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And rack thee in their fancies. SOUND SLEEP. As fast lock'd up in sleep, as guiltless labour When it lies starklyf in the traveller's bones. ACT V. CHARACTER OF AN ARCH HYPOCRITE. O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believ'st There is another comfort than this world, That thou neglect me not, with that opinion That I am touch'd with madness: make not impos sible That which but seems unlike 'Tis not impossible * Sallies. + Stifly. But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground, In all his dressings,* characts, titles, forms, MERCHANT OF VENICE. ACT I. MIRTH AND MELANCHOLY. NOW, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time: That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, WORLDLINESS. You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it, that do buy it with much care. THE WORLD'S TRUE VALUE. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part. CHEERFULNESS. Let me play the Fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come: And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than heart cool with mortifying groans. my Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Sleep when he wakes? and creep into the jaundice By being peevish? *Habits and characters of office. |