But fair posterity), should hold some counsel
In such a business.

RURAL SIMPLICITY.

I was not much afeard: for once, or twice,
I was about to speak; and tell him plainly,
The self-same sun, that shines upon his court,
Hides not his visage from our cottage, but
Looks on alike.

LOVE CEMENTED BY PROSPERITY, BUT LOOSENED
BY ADVERSITY.

Prosperity's the very bond of love;

Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
Affliction alters.

ACT V.

WONDER, PROCEEDING FROM SUDDEN JOY.

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: A notable passion of wonder appeared in them: but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say, if the importance* were joy, or sorrow: but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be.

A STATUE.

What was he, that did make it?-See, my lord, Would you not deem, it breath'd? and that those veins Did verily bear blood?

Pol.

Masterly done:
The very life seems warm upon her lip.

Leon. The fixure of her eye has motion in't +
As we are mock'd with art.

The thing imported.

+i. e. Though her eye be fixed it seems to have motion.

in it.

As if.

Still, methinks,

1

There is an air comes from her: What fine chizzel Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, For I will kiss her.

A WIDOW COMPARED TO A TURTLE.

I, an old turtle,

Will wing me to some wither'd bough; and there
My mate, that's never to be found again,
Lament till I am lost.

THE

BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE.

Part the Second.

HISTORICAL PLAYS,

CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED.

KING JOHN.

ACT I.

NEW TITLES.

GOOD den*, sir Richard, God-a-mercy, fellow
And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter:
For new-made honour doth forget men's names;
"Tis too respective +, and too sociable,

For your conversion. Now your traveller,-
He and his tooth-pick at my worship's mess;
And when my knightly stomach is suffic'd,
Why then I suck my teeth, and catechise
My picked man of countries §:- -My dear sir,
(Thus, leaning on mine elbow, I begin,)
I shall beseech you-That is question now;
And then comes answer like an ABC-book||:-
O sir, says answer, at your best command;
At

your employment; at your service, sir:
No, sir, says question, I, sweet sir, at yours:
And so, ere answer knows what question would,
(Saving in dialogue of compliment;

And talking of the Alps, and Appenines,
The Pyrenean, and the river Po,)

It draws toward supper in conclusion so.
But this is worshipful society,

And fits the mounting spirit, like myself:
For he is but a bastard to the time,
That doth not smack of observation.

* Good evening.

Change of condition. #Catechism.

+ Respectable..

2 My travelled fop.