VI PORTRAITS.- PERSONAL. PICTURES. "Who will not honor noble numbers, when Verses outlive the bravest deeds of men?"-HERRICK. PORTRAITS. -PERSONAL.—PICTURES. NEBUCHADNEZZAR. THERE was a king that much might, GOWER: Confessio Amantis. NESTOR TO HECTOR. Nestor. I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft, Laboring for destiny, make cruel way Through ranks of Greekish youth: and I have seen thee, As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed, Despising many forfeits and subduements, When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i' the air, Not letting it decline on the declined: That I have said to some my stand ers-by, Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life! And I have seen thee pause, and take thy breath When that a ring of Greeks have hemmed thee in, Like an Olympian wrestling: This have I seen But this thy countenance, still locked in steel, I never saw till now. Let an old man embrace thee: And, worthy warrior, welcome to our tents. SHAKSPEARE. CORIOLANUS. Cominius. I shall lack voice; the deeds of Coriolanus Should not be uttered feebly. — It is held, That valor is the chiefest virtue, and Most dignifies the haver: if it be, The man I speak of cannot in the world Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years, When Tarquin made a head for Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight When with his Amazonian chin he drove The bristled lips before him: he bestrid An o'erpressed Roman, and in the consul's view Slew three opposers: Tarquin's self he met, And struck him on his knee: in that |