COMEDY OF ERRORS. ACT II. MAN'S PRE-EMINENCE. THERE'S nothing, situate under heaven's eye, PATIENCE EASIER TAUGHT THAN PRACTISED. Patience, unmov'd, no marvel though she pause; But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, DEFAMATION. see, the jewel, best enamelled, Will lose bis beauty; and though gold 'bides still, JEALOUSY. Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange, and frown; The time was once, when thou unurg'd would'st vow That never meat sweet-savour'd in thy taste, Unless I spake, look'd, touch'd, or carv'd to thee. SLANDER. For slander lives upon succession; For ever hous'd, where it once gets possession. ACT V. A WOMAN'S JEALOUSY MORE DEADLY THAN POISON. The venom clamours of a jealous woman Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing: And thereof comes it that his head is light. Thou say'st, his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions, Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness? (Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair;) DESCRIPTION OF A BEGGARLY FORTUNE-TELLER. A hungry lean-fac'd villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller; OLD AGE. Though now this grained* face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up; Yet hath my night of life some inemory, * Furrowed, lined. My wasting lamp some fading glimmer left, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. ACT I. SELF-DENIAL. BRAVE conquerors!—for so you are VANITY OF PLEASURE, Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. ON STUDY. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. FROST. An envious sneaping frost, That bites the first-born infants of the spring. A CONCEITED COURTIER. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, One, whom the music of his own vain tongue ACT II. BEAUTY. My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise; A MERRY MAN. A merrier man, ACT III. HUMOROUS DESCRIPTION OF LOVE. O! And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip; A very beadle to a humorous sigh; * Called. This wimpled *, whining, purblind, wayward boy; Of trotting paritors -O my little heart!— And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop! ACT IV. SONNET. Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye ('Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,) Persuade my heart to this false perjury? Vows, for thee broke, deserve not, punishment. A woman I forswore; but, I will prove, Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love; Thy grace being gain'd, cures all disgrace in me. Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is: Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine, Exhal'st this vapour vow; in thee it is: 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!) *Hooded, veiled. + Petticoats. The officers of the spiritual courts who serve citations. |