And never gives to truth and virtue, that ACT IV. DISSIMULATION. O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! Comes not that blood as modest evidence, To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear, All you that see her, that she were a maid, By these exterior shows? But she is none: She knows the heat of a luxurious* bed: Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. A FATHER LAMENTING HIS DAUGHTER'S INFAMY. Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?† INNOCENCE DISCOVERED BY THE COUNTENANCE. A thousand blushing apparitions start * Lascivious. † Disposition of things. Sullied. RESOLUTION. I know not: If they speak but truth of her, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, THE DESIRE OF BELOVED OBJECTS HEIGHTENED BY For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Into his study of imagination; And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, TALKING BRAGGARTS. But manhood is melted into courtesies,§ valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie, and swears it. ACT V. COUNSEL OF NO WEIGHT IN MISERY. I pray thee, cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless *While. † Over-rate. + By. § Ceremony As water in a seive; give not me counsel; But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Measure his wo the length and breadth of mine, But there is no such man: For, brother, men To be so moral, when he shall endure SATIRE ON THE STOIC PHILOSOPHERS. I pray thee, peace: I will be flesh and blood; TALKING BRAGGARTS. Hold you content: What man! I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple. Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness. And speak of half a dozen dangerous words, VILLAIN TO BE NOTED. Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; That when I note another man like him, I may avoid him. DAYBREAK. The wolves have preyed: and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. TAMING OF THE SHREW. INDUCTION. HOUNDS. THY hounds shall make the welkin answer them, And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. PAINTING. Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight Adonis painted by a running brook: And Cytherea all in sedges hid; Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, Even as the waving sedges play with wind. ACT I. WOMAN'S TONGUE. Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears? Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpet's clang: And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, ACT III. A MAD WEDDING. When the priest, Should ask-if Katharine should be his wife, The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff, That down fell priest and book, and book and priest; Now take them up, quoth he, if any list. Tra. What said the wench, when he arose again? Gre Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp'd, and swore, As if the vicar meant to cozen him. He calls for wine: A health, quoth he, as if But that his beard grew thin and hungerly, ACT IV. THE MIND ALONE VALUABLE. For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sur breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth† in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, *It was the custom for the company present to drink wine immediately after the marriage ceremony. + Appeareth. |