LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST-continued.]

That unlettered, small-knowing soul.

Acti. Sc. I.

A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. Act i. Sc. I. The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but, I think, now 't is not to be found.

Act i. Sc. 2.

The rational hind Costard.

Act i. Sc. 2.

Devise, wit! write, pen! for I am for whole volumes in folio.

The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat.

Act iii. Sc. I.

A very beadle to a humorous sigh.

Act iii. Sc. I.

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;

Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
Th' anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

Act iii. Sc. I.

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Dictynna, good-man Dull.

These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourish'd pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.
It adds a precious seeing to the eye.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive :
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the Academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.
As sweet, and musical,

Act iv. Sc. 2. in the womb of

Act iv. Sc. 2.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair;
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

Activ. Sc. 3.

LOVE'S LABOUR 'S LOST-continued.]

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Priscian a little scratch'd; 't will serve.

Act v. Sc. I.

Act v. Sc. I.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Act v. Sc. I.

In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon.

Brief as the lightning in the collied night,

That, in a spleca, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!"

The jaws of darkness do devour it up.

Acti. Sc. I.

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove: I will roar you, an't were any nightingale.

''earthlier happy,' White, Cambridge, Dyce. 'earthly happier,' Singer, Staunton, Knight.

Acti. Sc. 2.

2 The same sentiment, in very different language, has been expressed by Milton in Paradise Lost; Book 10, line 896, and following lines.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM-continued.]

A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day.

Act i. Sc. 2.

Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.

Act iii. Sc. I.

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And, as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

That is the true beginning of our end.

Act v. Sc. I.

Act v. Sc. I.

Act v. Sc. I.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

Act v. Sc. I.

The best in this kind are but shadows.

1 Act ii. Sc. 1, White, Cambridge, Dyce, Staunton. Act ii. Sc. 2, Singer, Knight.

2 This expression is also to be found in Champman's Bussy d'Ambois, Act i. Sc. 1 (1607).

Act i. Sc. I.

And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. Act i. Sc. 1.

They are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats land-thieves and water-thieves.

Act i. Sc. 2.

Act i. Sc. 2.

and water-rats, Act i. Sc. 3.

MERCHANT OF VENICE-continued.]

And the vile squeaking of the wry-neck'd fife.

All things that are,

Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.

Act ii. Sc. 5.

Act ii. Sc. 6.1

Act iii. Sc. I.

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,

But, being season'd with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil?

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your

mother.2

Act iii. Sc. 5.

Let it serve for table-talk.

Act iii. Sc. 5.

What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

Activ. Sc. I.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd;

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath it is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,

It is an attribute to God himself,

And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,-
That in the course of justice none of us

Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy,

The deeds of mercy.

A Daniel come to judgment !

And that same prayer doth teach us all to render

Act iv. Sc. I.

Act iv. Sc. I.

Act iv. Sc. I.

A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!

Act iv. Sc. I.

Act iv. Sc. I.

'T is not in the bond.

Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip.

I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

1 Act ii. Sc. 5, Dyce.

2 Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim. Philippe Gaultier (about the 13th century), Alexandreis, Book v. line 301.