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Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg

ment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy: rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;

And they in France, of the best rank and station,
Are most select and generous, chief in that.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all,—To thine ownself be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

HAMLET, A. 1, s. 3.

PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE.

ADRIANA. This servitude makes you to keep unwed.

LUCIANA. Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed.

ADR. But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway.

Luc. Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey. ADR. How if your husband start some other where ?

LUC. Till he come home again, I would forbear.

ADR. Patience, unmov'd, no marvel though

she pause;

They can be meek, that have no other cause.
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;

But were we burden'd with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain:
So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,

With urging helpless patience would'st relieve

me:

But, if thou live to see like right bereft,

This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left. Luc. Well, I will marry one day, but to try;

Here comes your man, now is your husband

nigh.

COMEDY OF ERRORS, A. 2, s. 1.

PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC..

PREPOSTEROUS ass! that never read so far
To know the cause why music was ordain'd!
Was it not, to refresh the mind of man,
After his studies, or his usual pain?
Then give me leave to read philosophy,

And, while I pause, serve in your harmony.

TAMING OF THE SHREW, A. 3, s. 1.

PHILOSOPHY OF SYMPATHY.

LOVE goes toward love, as school-boys from their books;

But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

ROMEO AND JULIET, A. 2, s. 2.

PHILOSOPHY OF THE CONSCIOUS

WORLD.

THE great man down, you mark, his favourite

flies;

The poor advanc'd makes friends of enemies.

And hitherto doth love on fortune tend:

For who not needs, shall never lack a friend;
And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
Directly seasons him his enemy.

But, orderly to end where I begun,-
Our wills, and fates, do so contráry run,
That our devices still are overthrown;

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our

own:

So think thou wilt no second husband wed; But die thy thoughts, when thy first one is dead.

HAMLET, A. 3, s. 2.

PHYSIOGNOMY.

NAY, I knew by his face that there was something in him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought, I cannot tell how to term it. He had so; looking as it were,- -'Would I were hanged, but I thought there was more in him than I could think.

CORIOLANUS, A. 4, s. 5.

PHYSIOGNOMY.

CLEOPATRA.

Bear'st thou her face in mind?

is it long, or round?

MESSENGER. Round even to faultiness.

CLEO.

They are foolish that are so.

For the most part, too,

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A. 3, s. 3.

PHYSIOGNOMY.

THERE is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to

colour.

HAMLET, A. 2, s. 2.

PHYSIOGNOMY OF AGE AND
SORROW.

KIND keepers of my weak decaying age,
Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.-
Even like a man new haled from the rack,
So fare my limbs with long imprisonment :
And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,
Nestor-like aged, in an age of care,

Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer.

These eyes,-like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,

Wax dim, as drawing to their end.

Weak shoulders, overborne with burd'ning grief;
And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground:-
Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is
numb,

Unable to support this lump of clay,-
Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,
As witting I no other comfort have.

K. HENRY VI., PART I., A. 2, s. 5.

PHYSIOGNOMY OF MISFORTUNE. CAPTAIN. My lord of Salisbury, we have staid ten days,

And hardly kept our countrymen together,
And yet we hear no tidings from the king;

Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell. SALISBURY. Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman;

The king reposeth all his confidence

In thee.

CAP.

'Tis thought, the king is dead; we will not stay.

The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd,
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;
The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth,
And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change;
Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap,-
The one, in fear to lose what they enjoy,
The other, to enjoy by rage and war:

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.—
Farewell; our countrymen are gone and fled,
As well assur'd, Richard their king is dead.

SAL. Ah, Richard! with the eyes of heavy mind,

I see thy glory, like a shooting star,
Fall to the base earth from the firmament!
Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,
Witnessing storms to come, woe, and unrest
Thy friends are fled, to wait upon thy foes.
And crossly to thy good all fortune goes.

;

;

K. RICHARD II., a. 2, s. 4.

PHYSIOLOGY OF LOVE.

LOVE is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs;
Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

ROMEO AND JULIET, A. 1, s. 1.

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