For chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say; Either that is thine, or else thou wert not his. K. HENRY VI., PART III., A. 2, s. 1. GREATNESS FORGETFUL OF ITSELF. He comes too short of that great property ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A. 1, s. 1. GREATNESS OF SOUL. WHY then, will I no more: Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son, A gory emulation 'twixt us twain: Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan so, Wherein my sword had not impressure made TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, A. 4, s. 5. GRIEF AND CONSOLATION. GIVE the gods a thankful sacrifice. When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth; comforting therein, that when old robes are worn out, there are members to make new. If there were no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the case to be lamented; this grief is crowned with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new petticoat :-and, indeed, the tears live in an onion, that should water this sorrow. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A. 1, s. 2. GRIEF IN PARTING ADDED TO BY PRESENTIMENT OF MISFORTUNE. BUSHY. Madam, your majesty is too much sad: You promis'd, when you parted with the king, To lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. QUEEN. To please the king, I did; to please myself, I cannot do it; yet I know no cause Which show like grief itself, but are not so: For sorrow's eye, glaz'd with blinding tears, Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye, Which, for things true, weeps things imaginary. As-though, in thinking, on no thought I think- QUEEN. 'Tis nothing less: conceit is still deriv'd From some fore-father grief; mine is not so; But what it is, that is not yet known; what K. RICHARD II, A. 2, s. 2. GRIEF UTTERED A SAFETY-VALVE TO THE HEART. DUCHESS. Why should calamity be full of words? Windy attornies to their Q. ELIZABETH. client woes, Airy succeeders of intestate joys, Poor breathing orators of miseries! Let them have scope: though what they do impart Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. DUCH. If so, then be not tongue-ty'd: go with me, And in the breath of bitter words let's smother My damned son, that thy two sweet sons smother'd. K. RICHARD III., A. 4, s. 4. GROWTH OF IMAGINATION. OUR poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd: The fire i'the flint TIMON OF ATHENS, A. 1, s. 1. HAPPILY BEGOTTEN. COME hither, England's hope: If secret powers K. HENRY VI., PART III., A. 4, s. 6. HAPPINESS IN EMPLOYMENT. WHAT is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To rust in us unus'd. HAMLET, A. 4, s. 4. HARD AND SOFT. LEAR. O me, my heart, my rising heart!but, down. FOOL. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels, when she put them i'the paste alive; she rapp'd 'em o'the coxcombs with a stick, and cry'd, Down, wantons, down. KING LEAR, A. 2, s. 4. HASTINESS. ENOUGH of this: it came in too suddenly; let it die as it was born. CYMBELINE, A. 1, s. 5, HE WAS TOO NOBLE FOR THEM. REMEMBER March, the ides of March remember! Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? M |