THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. Act i. Sc. I. All his successors, gone before him, have done 't; and all his ancestors, that come after him, may. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. Ibid. Ibid. Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is good gifts. Mine host of the Garter. Ibid. 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. Convey, the wise it call. Steal? foh! a fico for the phrase ! Act i. Sc. 3. Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. Ibid. Tester I'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. [The Merry Wives of Windsor continued. Why, then the world 's mine oyster, The short and the long of it. Unless experience be a jewel. Act ii. Sc. 2. Ibid. Ibid. Like a fair house, built upon another man's ground. Ibid. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. Act fii. Sc. 2. Act iii. Sc. 3. What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a Act iii. Sc. 5. As good luck would have it. The rankest compound of villanous smell that Ibid. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Measure for Measure continued.] Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends Act i. Sc. 1. He was ever precise in promise-keeping. Act i. Sc. 2. I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted. Act i. Sc. 5.1 Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, Ibid. May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. Act ii. Sc. 1. Ibid. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Act ii. Sc. 2. No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Ibid. 1 Act i. Sc. 5, White, Singer, Knight. Act i. Sc. 4, Cambridge, Dyce, Staunton. [Measure for Measure continued. 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. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd, Ibid. Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the angels weep. Ibid. That in the captain 's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Servile to all the skyey influences. The sense of death is most in apprehension, Ibid. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; Measure for Measure continued.] In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; And blown with restless violence round about The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment To what we fear of death. Ibid. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Ibid. Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn ; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain.1 My business in this state Made me a looker-on here in Vienna. 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, Are of those that April wears! But first set my poor heart free, |