Enter LUCIUS, with Wine and Tapers. Bru. Speak no more of her.-Give me a bowl of wine: In this 1 bury all unkindness, Cassius. [Drinks. Cas. My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge: Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love. [Drinks. OPPORTUNITY TO BE SEIZED ON ALL OCCASIONS OF There is a tide in the affairs of men, Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. ACT V. THE PARTING OF BRUTUS AND CASSIUS. Bru. No, Cassius, no think not, thou noble That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome; The end of this day's business, ere it come! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, MELANCHOLY, THE PARENT OF ERROR. O hateful error, melancholy's child! Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men ANTONY'S CHARACTER OF BRUTUS. This was the noblest Roman of them all: up, KING LEAR. ! L ACT I. A FATHER'S ANGER. ET it be so,-Thy truth then be thy dower: From whom we do exist, and cease to be; * Kindred. * Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian, Or he that makes his generation + messes BASTARDY. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound: Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality, Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops, Got 'tween asleep and wake? ASTROLOGY RIDICULED. This is the excellent foppery of the world! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity: fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under ursa major; I so * From this time. His children. The nicety of civil institution. Great bear, the constellation so named. The injustice. KING LEAR. that it follows, I am rough and lecherous.-Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. FILIAL INGRATITUDE. Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, A FATHER'S CURSE ON HIS CHILD, Hear, nature, hear; Dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if Dry up in her the organs of increase; ACT II. FLATTERING SYCOPHANTS. That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain Which are too intrinse + t'unloose: smooth every That in the natures of their lords rebels; * Degraded. + Falling. + Perplexed. Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon + beaks PLAIN BLUNT MEN. This is some fellow, Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect These kind of knaves I know, which in this plain ness Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends, BEDLAM BEGGARS. While I may scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought Sometime with lunatic bans I, sometime with prayers, Enforce their charity. * Disowned. The bird called the king-fisher, which, when dried and hung up by a thread, is supposed to turn his bill to the point from whence the wind blows. Simple or rustic. Hair thus knotted was supposed to be the work of elves and fairies in the night. A Skewers, Curses. |