STRE A M.

The current that with gentle murmur glides,
Thou know'ft, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage:
But when his fair course is not hindered,

He makes sweet mufick with th' enamel'd ftones,
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage;

And fo by many winding nooks he strays,

With willing fport, to the wild ocean..

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2. Sc. 7.

STUDY.

Study is like the heaven's glorious fun, That will not be deep fearch'd with fawcy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority, from other books.

These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights,

That give a name to every fixed ftar,

Have no more profit of their fhining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Love's Labour Loft, A. 1. Sc. I.

SUPERFLUIT Y.

Take phyfic, Pomp;

Expofe thyfelf to feel what wretches feel,

That thou may'ft shake the fuperflux to them,

And fhew the heav'ns more juft.

King Lear, A. 3. Sc. 4.

WARRIOR.

WARRIOR.

I faw young Harry with his beaver on,
His cuiffes on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,

Rife from the ground like feather'd Mercury ;
And vaulted with fuch ease into his feat,
As if an angel dropt down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegafus,

And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

Henry IV. Part I. A. 4. Sc. 2.

Cleopatra's failing down the River Sydnus.
For her own person,

It beggar'd all description: she did lie
In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue)
O'erpicturing that Venus, where we fee

The fancy outwork Nature: on each fide her
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like fmiling Cupids,
With diverse-colour'd fans, whose wind did feem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
And what they undid,-did.

Antony and Cleopatra, A. 2. Sc. 2.

HENRY V. CHARACTER.
When he speaks,

The air, a charter'd libertine, is ftill;

And the mute wonder lurketh in men's

ears,

To steal his sweet and honey'd fentences.

King Henry V. A. 1. Sc. 1.

E 2

MACBETH'S

MACBETH'S CHEER OR GRACE.

-Now good digestion wait on appetite,

And health on both !

Macbeth, A. 3. Sc. 4.

Give you a reafon on compulfion! If reasons were as plenty as black-berries, I would not give you a reason upon compulfion-! !

FALSTAFF, 1ft Part of King Henry IV. A. 2. Sc. 4.

WARWICK.

There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd;
The which obferv'd, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their feeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

King Henry IV. A. 3. Sc. 1.

KING HENRY.

Every fubject's duty is the King's, but every subject's foul is his own. Therefore should every foldier in the every moth wars do as every fick man in his bed, wash out of his confcience; and dying fo, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was bleffedly loft, wherein fuch preparation was gained: and, in him that escapes, it were not fin to think, that making God fo free an offer, he let him outlive that day to fee his greatness, and to teach others how they should prepare. King Henry V. A. 4. Sc. 5.

HAMLET.

HAMLET.

Ham. Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he fings at grave-making?

Hor. Cuftom hath made it to him a property of eafiness. Ham. 'Tis e'en fo. The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their fouls.

Othello, A. 3. Sc. 3.

MIR AND A.

Alas, now, pray you,

Work not so hard; I would the lightning had
Burnt up thofe logs, that you are enjoin'd to pile :
Pray, fet it down and reft you; when this burns,
'Twill weep for having wearied you.

Tempeft, A. 3. Sc. 1.