The cost of princes on unworthy_shoulders? That says, his bravery* is not on my cost, There then; How, what then? Let me see wherein A TENDER PETITION. But whate'er you are, That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church; If ever from your eye-lids wip'd a tear, THE SEVEN AGES. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: Even in the cannon's mouth: And then, the justice; Is second childishness, and mere oblivion; INGRATITUDES A SONG. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thy tooth is not so keen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho! sing, heigh, ho! unto the green holly: Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Though thou the waters warp, As friend remember'd not. Heigh, ho! sing, heigh, ho! &c. *Trite, common. +Unnatural. + Remembering. ACT III. A SHEPHERD'S PHILOSOPHY. I know, the more one sickens, the worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends: That the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn: That good pasture makes fat sheep: and that a great cause of the night, is lack of the sun: That he, that hath learned no wit by nature nor art, may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred. CHARACTER OF AN HONEST AND SIMPLE SHEPHERD. Sir, I am a true labourer; I earn that I eat, get' that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm: and the greatest of my pride is, to see my ewes graze, and my lambs suck. DESCRIPTION OF A LOVER. A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit*; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not-but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having + in beard is a younger brother's revenue:-Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation. But you are no such man: you are rather point-device in your accoutrements; as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any other. REAL PASSION DISSEMBLED. Think not I love him, though I ask for him; Tis but a peevish § boy:-yet he talks well;— But what care I for words? yet words do well, When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. It is a pretty youth:-not very pretty : * A spirit averse to conversation. + Estate. Over-exact. ? Silly. But, sure, he's proud; and yet his pride becomes bim: Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference I have more cause to hate him than to love him: 1 He said, mine eyes were black, and my hair black; I marvel, why I answer'd not again: ACT IV. THE VARIETIES OF MELANCHOLY, I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice*; nor the lover's, which is all these. MARRIAGE ALTERS THE TEMPER OF BOTH SEXES. Say a day, without the ever: No, no, Orlando; men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon-over his hen; more clamorous than a parrot against rain; more new-fangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, *Trifling. like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep. CUPID'S PARENTAGE. 1 No, that same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of thought*, conceived of spleen, and born of madness; that blind rascally boy, that abuses every one's eyes, because his own are out, let him be judge, how deep I am in love.. OLIVER'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS DANGER WHEN SLEEPING. Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age, A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself, Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch, To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. ACT V. LOVE. Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, *Melancholy. |