As water in a seive; give not me counsel; But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Measure his wo the length and breadth of mine, But there is no such man: For, brother, men To be so moral, when he shall endure I SATIRE ON THE STOIC PHILOSOPHERS. pray thee, peace: I will be flesh and blood; For there was never yet philosopher, That could endure the tooth-ach patiently; TALKING BRAGGARTS. Hold you content: What man! I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple. Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness. And speak of half a dozen dangerous words, VILLAIN TO BE NOTED. Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; That when I note another man like him, I may avoid him. DAYBREAK. The wolves have preyed: and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. TAMING OF THE SHREW. INDUCTION. HOUNDS. THY hounds shall make the welkin answer them, And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. PAINTING. Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight Adonis painted by a running brook: And Cytherea all in sedges hid; Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, Even as the waving sedges play with wind. ACT I. WOMAN'S TONGUE. Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears? Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpet's clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, ACT III. A MAD WEDDING. When the priest, Should ask-if Katharine should be his wife, The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff, That down fell priest and book, and book and priest; Now take them up, quoth he, if any list. Tra. What said the wench, when he arose again? Gre. Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp'd, and swore, As if the vicar meant to cozen him. He calls for wine: A health, quoth he, as if But that his beard grew thin and hungerly, ACT IV. THE MIND ALONE VALUABLE. For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peeretht in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, It was the custom for the company present to drink wine immediately after the marriage ceremony. † Appeareth. Because his feathers are more beautiful? Because his painted skin contents the eye? ACT V. THE WIFE'S DUTY TO HER HUSBAND. Fie, fie! unknit that threat'ning unkind brow; A woman moved, is like a fountain troubled, But that our soft conditions* and our hearts, TEMPEST. ACT I. AN USURPING SUBSTITUTE COMPARED TO JOY. THAT now he was The ivy, which had hid my princely trunk, ARIEL'S DESCRIPTION OF MANAGING THE STORM. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flam'd amazement: Sometimes, I'd divide, And burn in many places; on the top-mast, The yards, and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join: Jove's lightnings, the precur sors O'the dreadful thunder claps, more momentary -Not a soul, But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation: All, but mariners, Plung'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, Then all a-fire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-starting (then like reeds, not hair,) Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. PROSPERO REPROVING ARIEL. Thou dost; and think'st It much, to tread the ooze of the salt deep; * Gentle tempers. |