Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. Mine host of the Garter. Ibid. I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. Ibid. If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. Ibid. O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? Act i. Sc. 3. 'Convey,' the wise it call. 'Steal!' foh! a fico for the phrase! Ibid. Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. Ibid. Tester I'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! Ibid. Thou art the Mars of malcontents. Ibid. Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. Ibid. Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. Ibid. We have some salt of our youth in us. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. Act iii. Sc. 2. who was in the basket! What a taking was he in when your husband asked O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults Act iii. Sc. 3. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Act v. Se. 1. Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched Both thanks and use. Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1. He was ever precise in promise-keeping. Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2. Is very snow-broth; one who never feels And make us lose the good we oft might win The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Act i. Sc. 4.1 Ibid.1 Ibid.1 Act ii. Sc. 1. Ibid. This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. Ibid. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? Act ii. Sc. 2. No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. 1 Act i. Sc. 5, White, Singer, Knight. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. That in the captain 's but a choleric word, Our compelled sins Ibid. Stand more for number than for accompt. Act ii. Sc. 4. The miserable have no other medicine, Act iii. Sc. 1. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. Palsied eld. The sense of death is most in apprehension; Ibid. Ibid. In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great Ibid. The cunning livery of hell. Ibid. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about Ibid. The weariest and most loathed worldly life To what we fear of death. Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. O, what may man within him hide, That so sweetly were forsworn; But my kisses bring again, bring again; Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 2. Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.1 Every true man's apparel fits your thief. A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time Act iv. Sc. 1. Act iv. Sc. 2. Act v. Sc. 1. Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. Ibid. My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. Ibid. They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. Ibid. 1 This song occurs in Act v. Sc. 2, of Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother, with the following additional stanza: Hide, O, hide those hills of snow, Which thy frozen bosom bears, But first set my poor heart free, |