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"Sweet expressions, quick conceit, Familiar language, fashioned to the weight Part with't at pleasure: when we would Of such as speak it."

"PUT on

The surest armour anvil'd in the shop
Of passive fortitude.”

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Lover's

Progress, p. 421.

"A MAN from whose example As from a compass, we may steer our fortunes,

Our actions, and our age; and safe arrive at A memory that shall become our ashes." Ibid. The Pilgrim, p. 445.

"FOR he that holds no faith, shall find no trust; But sowing wrong, is sure to reap the same." DANIEL, vol. 1, p. 77.

uncase,

It brings along with it both flesh and sinews, And leaves us living monsters."

Ibid. Prophetess, p. 166.

"WHERE benefits

Are ill-conferred, as on unworthy men
That turn them to bad uses, the bestower
For wanting judgement how and on whom
to place them,
Is partly guilty."

Ibid. Queen of Corinth, p. 192.

Humility.

"THE fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest towards the ground."- Bp. ReyNOLDS, vol. 5, p. 47.

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Abuse young lays of love."-Ibid. p. 96. "A MONASTERY,

A most strict house; a house where none may whisper,

Where no more light is known but what may make ye

Believe there is a day where no hope dwells,

Nor comfort, but in tears."

Ibid. Thierry and Theodoret, p. 124. "WOULD

It could as soon be buried to the world

"THE world's a labyrinth, where unguided As it should die to me."—Ibid. p. 138.

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"AND can it be that this most perfect crea

ture,

This image of his maker, well-squared man, Should leave the handfast1 that he had of

grace?"-Ibid. Woman Hater, p. 239. "He that intends well, yet deprives himself Of means to put his good thoughts into deed, Deceives his purpose of the due reward That goodness merits."

Ibid. Honest Man's Fortune, p. 377.

"Dost know what 'tis to die?

-Thou dost not, And therefore not what 'tis to live; to die Is to begin to live. It is to end An old, stale, weary work, and to commence A newer and a better. "Tis to leave Deceitful knaves for the society Of gods and goodness."

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Ibid. Triumph of Honour, p. 491.

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Publish their bowels to the vulgar eye."
Ibid. Triumph of Love, p. 518.

i. e. the hold. On the technical sense of "handfast," and "handfastning." See Tond's Johnson, in v. J. W. W.

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"BUT such is the perverseness of our nature,
That if we once but fancy levity,
How antic and ridiculous soe'er
It suit with us, yet will our muffled thought
Choose rather not to see it, than avoid it:
And if we can but banish our own sense,
We act our mimic tricks with that free
license,

That lust, that pleasure, that security,
As if we practised in a paste-board case,
And no one saw the motion, but the motion."
Ibid. p. 252.

"MEN speak ill of thee: so they be ill men, If they spake worse, 'twere better; for of such

To be dispraised, is the most perfect praise. What can his censure hurt me, whom the world

Hath censured vile before me!"

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Ibid. p. 281.

LEPIDUS.

"Arts, Arrantius ?

"YEARS are beneath the spheres; and time None but the plain and passive fortitude,

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To suffer and be silent; never stretch These arms against the torrent; live at

home

With my own thoughts, and innocence about

me,

Not tempting the wolves' jaws: these are my arts."-BEN JONSON. Sejanus, p. 104.

"WHAT a wild muster's here of attributes T'express a worm,-a snake."-Ibid. p. 115. Said of the serpent which came out of his statue, but applicable to adulatory epithets of dignity.

"It is a note

Of upstart greatness, to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

-Aye, and they think themselves Deeply dishonoured where they are omitted, (As if they were necessities that helped To the perfection of their dignities,) And hate the men that but refrain them." Ibid. p. 137. "BEAUTY, wit, and grace, The elements of active delicacy, Those all-eye-pleasing harmonies of sight Which do enchant men's fancies, and stir up

The life blood of dull earth."

MACHIN'S Dumb Knight.

Old Play, vol. 4, p. 383. "AYE! well done! Promises are no fetters: with that tongue Thy promise past, unpromise it again. Wherefore has man a tongue of power to speak,

But to speak still to his own private purpose? Beasts utter but one sound; but men have

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Of speech, and reason, even by nature given
Now to say one thing, and another now,
As best may serve their profitable ends."
CHAPMAN. All Fools.
Old Play, vol. 4. p. 129.
"BELIEVE it, sir,
That clothes do much upon the wit, as
weather

Does on the brain: and thence, sir, comes
your proverb,
[perience
The tailor makes the man. I speak by ex-
Of my own customers. I have had gallants
Both court and country, would have fool'd

you up

In a new suit, with the best wits in being, And kept their speed as long as their clothes lasted

Handsome and neat; but then as they grew

out

At the elbows again, or had a stain or spot, They have sunk most wretchedly."

"I WONDER gentlemen

And men of means will not maintain themselves [highest: Fresher in wit, I mean in clothes, to the For he that's out of clothes is out of fashion, And out of fashion is out of countenance, And out of countenance is out of wit." BEN JONSON. Staple of News, vol. 5, pp. 177-8.

A RICH piece of French eloquence. The night after the battle of Toulouse.—“ Le silence, muet de sa nature, n'y parlait pas, mais il poussait des gemissemens confus qui perçaient l'âme."— Precis Historique de la Battaile, part 3, p. 156.

"GOOD Master Picklock, with your worming brain

And wriggling engine-head of maintenance, Which I shall see you hole with very shortly. A fine round head, when those two lugs To trundle through a pillory." [are off, BEN JONSON. Staple of News, vol. 5, p. 298.

"A POOR affrighted

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