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Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
With every gale and vary of their masters,
As knowing nought, like dogs, but following.

544

34-ii. 2.

His red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice.

545

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

546

22-iii. 1.

27-iv. 3.

I do the wrong and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach,
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them-that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villany

With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

547

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
Speak, and look back, and pry on every side,
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw.
Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks,
Are at my service, like enforced smiles;
And both are ready in their offices,
At any time to grace my stratagems.

548

No man's pie is freed

24-i. 3.

24-iii. 5.

From his ambitious finger.

25-i. 1.

549

Profane fellow !

Wert thou the son of Jupiter, and no more,
But what thou art, besides, thou wert too base
To be a groom thou wert dignified enough,

* Disown.

The bird called the king-fisher, which, when dried, and hung by a thread, is supposed to turn his bill to the point from whence the wind blows.

Pretending.

Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made
Comparative for your virtues, to be styled
The under-hangman of the kingdom; and hated
For being preferr'd so well.

550

If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,
Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.*

31-ii. 3.

27-iv. 3.

551

From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
A dram of worth be drawn.

31-iii. 5.

552

You know no rules of charity,

Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

553

Insulting tyranny begins to jet.

24-i. 2.

24-ii. 4.

554

Thou wast seal'd in thy nativity

The slave of nature and the son of hell!

24-i. 3.

555

Thou globe of sinful continents, what a life dost

thou lead!

556

His humour

19-ii. 4.

Was nothing but mutation; ay, and that

From one bad thing to worse.

557

31-iv. 2.

The composition, that your valour and fear makes in you, is a virtue of a good wing.† 11-i. 1.

* Dr. Johnson says, that "Dryden has quoted two verses of Virgil, to show how well he could have written satires." Shakspeare has here given a specimen of the same power by a line bitter beyond all bitterness, in which Timon tells Apemantus that he had not virtue enough for the vices which he condemned.

To fly for safety.

558

From the extremest upward of thy head,
To the descent and dust beneath thy feet,
A most toad-spotted traitor.

559

34-v. 3.

And what may make him blush in being known,
He'll stop the course by which it might be known.

33-i. 2.

560

Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do,
Loves for his own ends, not for you.

15-iii. 5.

561

A wretch whom nature is ashamed,

Almost to acknowledge hers.

34-i. 1.

562

He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,

Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless every where;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;

Stigmatical in making,* worse in mind.

563

14-iv. 2.

Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!

564

I will converse with iron-witted fools,

And unrespective boys; none are for me,
That look into me with considerate eyes.

565

With doubler tongue

Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.

566

23-i. 4.

24-iv. 2.

7-iii. 2.

There is no more mercy in him, than there is milk

in a male tiger.

28-v. 4.

* Marked by nature with deformity.

567

O villains, vipers,

Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

568

This holy fox,

Or wolf, or both; for he is equal ravenous,

As he is subtle; and as prone to mischief,
As able to perform it.

569

Thou most lying slave,

Whom stripes may move, not kindness.

570

For he is set so only to himself,

17-iii. 2.

25-i. 1.

1-i. 2.

That nothing but himself, which looks like man,

Is friendly with him.

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Or as the south to the septentrion.*

27-v. 2.

O, tiger's heart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide!

572

23-i. 4.

One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel;

A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough;

A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff;

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A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that counterThe passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.

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575

Never did I know

A creature, that did bear the shape of man,
So keen and greedy to confound a man.

576

A hovering temporizer, that

9-iii. 2.

Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both.

577

13-i. 2.

I never heard a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own respect.

578

This outward-sainted deputy,

Whose settled visage and deliberate word

3-iii. 1.

Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth enmew,*
As falcon doth the fowl,-is yet a devil;

His filth within being cast, he would appear
A pond as deep as hell.

5-iii. 1.

FEMALE CHARACTERS.

SUPERIOR.

579

She is beautiful; and therefore to be woo'd;
She is a woman; therefore to be won.

580

In her youth

There is a pronet and speechless dialect,

21-v. 3.

Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous art, When she will play with reason and discourse,

And well she can persuade.

* Shut up.

5-i. 3.

† Prompt.

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