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M. V., IV: 2. 387

BEGGARS.-Abuse Position.

York. * * Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death.

H. VI., 3 pt., I: 4. 961.

-Their Death Unheralded. Cal. When beggars die, there are no comets seen.

J. C., II: 2. 1333.

BEGINNINGS.-Small, Dangerous.

Cas.

Turning the word to sword, and life to death.

That man, that sits within a monarch's heart,

And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, Would he abuse the countenance of the king,

Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach, In shadow of such greatness! With you, lord bishop,

It is even so: Who hath not heard it
spoken,

How deep you were within the books of
God?

us,

To the speaker in his parliament;
To us, the imagin'd voice of God himself;
The very opener, and intelligencer,
Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven,
And our dull workings: O, who shall be-
lieve,

But you misuse the reverence of your
place;

Employ the countenance and grace of heaven,

As a false favourite doth his prince's name, In deeds dishonourable? You have taken up,

Those that with haste will make a mighty Under the counterfeited zeal of God,

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I would not be ambitious in my wish,
To wish myself much better; yet, for you,
I would be trebled twenty times myself;
A thousand times more fair, ten thousand
times more rich;

That only to stand high in your account,
I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends,
Exceed account: but the full sum of me
Is sum of nothing; which, to term in gross,
Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unprac-
tis'd:

Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn; happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn ;
Happiest of all, in that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Myself, and what is mine, to you and yours,
Is now converted: but now, I was the lord
Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,
Queen o'er myself; and even now,
but now,
This house, these servants, and this same
myself,
Are yours, my lord: :-

ring;

I give them with this

Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine; There sleeps Titania, some time of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;

And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,

Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in :
And with the juice of this I'll streak her

eyes,

And make her full of hateful fantasies. Take thou some of it, and seek through this

grove:

A sweet Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;
But do it, when the next thing he espies
May be the lady; Thou shalt know the man
By the Athenian garments he hath on.
Effect it with some care, that he may prove
More fond on her, than she upon her love.
M. N., II: 1. 328.

BIRTH.-High.

Glo. * * But I was born so high,

Which when you part from, lose, or give Our aerie buildeth in the cedar's top,

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BIRTH-PLACE.- Of Great Men.

Flu. Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, captain Gower: What call you the town's name where Alexander the pig was porn? Gow. Alexander the great.

Flu. Why, I pray you, is not pig, great? The pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations.

Gow. I think Alexander the great was born in Macedon; his father was calledPhilip of Macedon, as I take it.

Flu. I think, it is in Macedon, where Alexander is porn. I tell you, captain, If you look in the maps of the 'orld, I war

To stop affliction, let him take his haste,
Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,
And hang himself.

T. A., V: 2: 1314.

BLACKNESS.-Badge of Hell.

King. O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,

rant, you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye, at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains, what is the name of the other river; but 't is all one, 't is so like as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you mark Alexander's life well, Harry of | The hue of dungeons, and the scroll of Monmouth's life is come after it indifferent well; for there is figures in all things. Alexander (God knows, and you know,) in his rages, and his furies, and his wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and his angers, look you, kill his pest friend, Clytus.

Gow. Our king is not like him in that; he never killed any of his friends.

Flu. It is not well done, mark you know, to take tales out of my mouth, ere it is made an end and finished. I speak but in the figures and comparisons of it: As Alexander is kill his friend Clytus, being in his ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, is turn away the fat knight with the great pelly-doublet: he was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks; I am forget his name.

Gow. Sir John Falstaff.

Flu. That is he: I can tell you, there is goot men born at Monmouth.

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- Of Skin.

L. L., IV: 3. 200.

Nur. A joyless, dismal, black, and sor-
rowful issue:

Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad
Amongst the fairest burdens of our clime.
The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy
seal,

And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's
point.

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Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war,
Shall seize this prey out of his father's
hands.

What, what! ye sanguine, shallow-hearted
boys!

Ye white-lim'd walls! ye alehouse painted
signs!

Coal-black is better than another hue,
In that it scorns to bear another hue:
For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn a swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
Tell the empress from me, I am of age
To keep mine own; excuse it how she can.
Tit. And., IV: 2. 1221.

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- Willful. Leon. Have not you seen, Camillo, (But that's past doubt—you have; or your eye-glass

Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,) or heard? W. T., I: 2. 584.

BLOOD.-Ancestral.

Flu. All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that: Got pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases his grace, and his majesty too!

K. Hen. Thanks, good my countryman. Flu. By Cheshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld; I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be God, so long as your majesty is an honest man. II. V., IV: 7. 848.

- Ancestral Disgraced. Gaunt. O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,

For that I was his father Edward's son;
That blood already, like the pelican,

Hast thou tapp'd out, and drunkenly ca

rous'd

My brother Gloster, plain well-meaning

soul,

(Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy souls!)

May be a precedent and witness good,
That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's
blood;

Join with the present sickness that I have;
And thy unkindness be like crooked age,
To crop at once a too-long wither'd flower.
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with
thee!

These words hereafter thy tormentors be!
Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
Dove they to live, that love and honour
have.
R. II., II: 1. 693.
-Innocent, Cries for Vengeance.

Boling.

Further I say,—and further will maintain
Upon his bad life, to make all this good,-
That he did plot the duke of Gloster's death;
Suggest his soon-believing adversaries;
And, consequently, like a traitor coward,
Sluic'd out his innocent soul through streams
of blood:

Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries, Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,

To me, for justice, and rough chastisement;
And, by the glorious worth of my descent,
This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.
R. II., I: 1. 685.

-Lays Summer's Dust.

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