book ii
. st. 13._
[34-4] Look, then, into thine heart and write.--LONGFELLOW: _Voices of the Night. Prelude._
[34-5] Quoted by Shakespeare in _Merry Wives of Windsor_.
CYRIL TOURNEUR. _Circa_ 1600.
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.[34-6]
_The Revenger's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 1._
FOOTNOTES:
[34-6] Distilled damnation.--ROBERT HALL (in Gregory's "Life of Hall").
LORD BROOKE. 1554-1628.
O wearisome condition of humanity!
_Mustapha. Act v. Sc. 4._
And out of mind as soon as out of sight.[35-1]
_Sonnet lvi._
FOOTNOTES:
[35-1] See Thomas à Kempis, page 7.
GEORGE CHAPMAN. 1557-1634.
None ever loved but at first sight they loved.[35-2]
_The Blind Beggar of Alexandria._
An ill weed grows apace.[35-3]
_An Humorous Day's Mirth._
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.[35-4]
_An Humorous Day's Mirth._
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare.
_All Fools. Act i. Sc. 1._
I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.
_All Fools. Act i. Sc. 1._
_Cornelia._ What flowers are these?
_Gazetta._ The pansy this.
_Cor._ Oh, that 's for lovers' thoughts.[35-5]
_All Fools. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour.[35-6]
_All Fools. Act v. Sc. 1._
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.[36-1]
_All Fools. Act v. Sc. 1._
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
_Monsieur D'Olive. Act i. Sc. 1._
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.[36-2]
_Monsieur D'Olive. Act v. Sc. 1._
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
_The Gentleman Usher. Act iv. Sc. 1._
To put a girdle round about the world.[36-3]
_Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1._
His deeds inimitable, like the sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.
_Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1._
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.[36-4]
_Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1._
Who to himself is law no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
_Bussy D'Ambois. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.
_Bussy D'Ambois. Act iii. Sc. 1._
'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
_Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Act i. Sc. 1._
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
_Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Act iii. Sc. 1._
He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
_Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Act v. Sc. 1._
Words writ in waters.[37-1]
_Revenge for Honour. Act v. Sc. 2._
They 're only truly great who are truly good.[37-2]
_Revenge for Honour. Act v. Sc. 2._
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.[37-3] Light gains make heavy purses. 'T is good to be merry and wise.[37-4]
_Eastward Ho._[37-5] _Act i. Sc. 1._
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
_Eastward Ho._[37-5] _Act i. Sc. 1._
Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.[37-6]
_Eastward Ho. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Enough 's as good as a feast.[38-1]
_Eastward Ho. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Fair words never hurt the tongue.[38-2]
_Eastward Ho. Act iv. Sc. 1._
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.[38-3]
_Eastward Ho. Act iv. Sc. 1._
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
_Eastward Ho. Act v. Sc. 1._
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
_Epilogue to Translations._
Promise is most given when the least is said.
_Musæus of Hero and Leander._
FOOTNOTES:
[35-2] Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?--MARLOWE: _Hero and Leander._
I saw and loved.--GIBBON: _Memoirs, vol. i. p. 106._
[35-3] See Heywood, page 13.
[35-4] Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.--SHAKESPEARE: _Two Gentlemen of Verona, act v. sc. 2._
[35-5] There is pansies, that 's for thoughts.--SHAKESPEARE: _Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5._
[35-6] Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.--SHAKESPEARE: _Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5._
[36-1] Quoted by Camden as a saying of one Dr. Metcalf. It is now in many peoples' mouths, and likely to pass into a proverb.--RAY: _Proverbs_ (Bohn ed.), _p. 145_.
[36-2] One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
SHAKESPEARE: _Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 2._
[36-3] I 'll put a girdle round about the earth.--SHAKESPEARE: _Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1._
[36-4] Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime.
LONGFELLOW: _A Psalm of Life._
[37-1] Here lies one whose name was writ in water.--_Keats's own Epitaph._
[37-2] To be noble we 'll be good.--_Winifreda_ (Percy's _Reliques_).
'T is only noble to be good.--TENNYSON: _Lady Clara Vere de Vere, stanza 7._
[37-3] The same in Franklin's _Poor Richard_.
[37-4] See Heywood, page 9.
[37-5] By Chapman, Jonson, and Marston.
[37-6] This is the famous passage that gave offence to James I., and caused the imprisonment of the authors. The leaves containing it were cancelled and reprinted, and it only occurs in a few of the original copies.--RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.
[38-1] _Dives and Pauper_ (1493). GASCOIGNE: _Memories_ (1575). FIELDING: _Covent Garden Tragedy, act ii. sc. 6._ BICKERSTAFF: _Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1._ See Heywood, page 20.
[38-2] See Heywood, page 12.
[38-3] See Heywood, page 13.
WILLIAM WARNER. 1558-1609.
With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red: Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled.
_Albion's England. Book viii . chap. xli. stanza 53._
We thinke no greater blisse then such To be as be we would, When blessed none but such as be The same as be they should.
_Albion's England.