DESDEMONA. But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving woman indeed? .. IAGO. She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lacked gold and yet went never gay, Delivers in such apt and gracious words, SHAKESPEARE the Rupert of debate. E. BULWER-LYTTON. For though I am not splenetive and rash, Fled from her wish, and yet said, "Now I Yet have I in me something dangerous. She that being angered, her revenge being nigh, To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; Hamlet, Act v. Sc. 1. Turn him to any cause of policy, SHAKESPEARE. The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, A Daniel come to judgment!. Merchant of Venice, Act iv. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. The river Thames. The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels; for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful: yet he pleased the ear, And with persuasive accent thus began. Paradise Lost, Book ii. MILTON. In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Hamlet, Acti. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. Don Juan, Cant, iii. BYRON. An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as if it stands. A lazy lolling sort, Unseen at church, at senate, or at court, Of ever-listless idlers, that attend No cause, no trust, no duty, and no friend. There too, my Paridell! she marked thee there, Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak Of one that loved, not wisely, but too well; |