For that same word, rebellion, did divide As fish are in a pond: but now, the bishop Suppos'd sincere, and holy in his thoughts, 2nd part King Henry IV. Act i. Scene 1. NOT SELFISH. Young Clifford. He that is truly dedicate to war Hath no self-love; nor he that loves himself Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, The name of valour. 2nd part King Henry VI. Act v. Scene 2. INFECTIOUS. Q. Mar. My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh, And this soft courage makes your followers faint. 3rd part King Henry VI. Act ii. Scene 2. Prince. Methinks, a woman of this valiant spirit And make him, naked, foil a man-at-arms. * Timorous. He should have leave to go away betimes; 3rd part King Henry VI. Act v. Scene 4. SHOULD RISE WITH THE OCCASION. Q. Margaret. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. What though the mast be now blown over-board, And give more strength to that which hath too much; We will not from the helm, to sit and weep; Ibid. MORAL COURAGE. King. Brave conquerors !-for so you are, Love's Labour's lost. Act i. Scene 1. 1st Senator. He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe; and make his wrongs His outsides; wear them, like his raiment, carelessly; And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger. Timon of Athens. Act iii. Scene 5. INSPIRED BY INTEGRITY. Brutus. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me, as the idle wind, Which I respect not. Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Scene 3 PREPARES FOR THE WORST. Cassius. But, since the affairs of men rest still uncertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall. Ibid. Act v. Scene 1. DANGEROUS WHEN FOUNDED ON FURY. Enobarbus. To be furious, Is, to be frighted out of fear: and in that mood, Restores his heart: When valour preys on reason, Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 11. EXCITED BY HARDSHIPS. Imogen. Famine, Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant. Cymbeline. Act iii. Scene 6. THE Poet has exhausted the subject, and positively leaves one nothing to say on it. He has exhibited it in all its phases, shown the superiority of moral over animal courage, how it is affected by sympathy and imagination, and above all, placed before us its highest triumph, viz. a conquest over our own bad dispositions. "Verbum sat sapientibus." CUSTOM AND HABIT. Valentine. How use doth breed a habit in a man! MEN'S JUDGMENTS AFFECTED BY HABITS AND Enobarbus. CIRCUMSTANCES. I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes: and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 11. King Lear. The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. King Lear. Act iii. Scene 2. VIRTUE ATTAINED BY HABIT. Hamlet. Refrain to-night: And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; And either curb the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency. Hamlet. Act iii. Scene 4. |