FROST. An envious sneaping* frost, That bites the first born infants of the spring. A CONCELTED COURTIER. wrong A man in all the world's new fashion planted, ACT II. BEAUTY. My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise; A merrier man, A MERRY MAN. Within the limit of becoming mirth, * Nipping. ACT HI. HUMOUROUS DESCRIPTION OF LOVE. O! And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip; A very beadle to a humourous sigh: This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy; Of trotting paritors‡-0 my little heart!- And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop! ACT IV. SONNET. Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye Vows, for thee broke, deserve not punishment. A woman I forswore; but, I will prove, Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: Thy grace being gain'd, cures all disgrace in me. * Hooded, veiled. † Petticoats. The officers of the spiritual courts who serve citations. If broken then, it is no fault of mine; If by me broke, what fool is not so wise, To lose an oath to win a paradise? SONG. On a day, (alack the day!) Through the velvet leaves the wind, That I am forsworn for thee: Thou for whom even Jove would swear, Juno but an Ethiop were; And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. THE POWER OF LOVE. But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power; And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd; Love's feeling is more soft, and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste: For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as sphinx, as sweet and musical, WOMEN'S EYES. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive; They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academies, That show, contain, and nourish all the world; Else, none at all in aught proves excellent. ACT V. JEST AND JESTER. Your task shall be With all the fierce* endeavour of your wit, Biron. To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spiri: Of him that hears it, never in the tongue SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, * Vehement Cuckoo, cuckoo,-O word of fear, When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo,-O word of fear, Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And milk comes frozen home in pail, Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw And Marian's nose looks red and raw, To-whit, to-who, a merry note, MEASURE FOR MEASURE. ACT I. VIRTUE GIVEN TO BE EXERTED. HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for tremselves: for if our virtues + Wild apples. * Cool. |