We still have slept together,

Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together;
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled, and inseparable.

663.

As e'er my

Real friendship.

Thou art e'en as just a man conversation coped withal.

Nay, do not think I flatter:

10-i. 3.

For what advancement may I hope from thee,
That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits,

To feed, and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp;
And crook the pregnant" hinges of the knee,
Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,
And could of men distinguish her election,
She hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been
As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing;
A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and bless'd are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well co-mingled,
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please: Give me that man,
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.

36-iii. 2.

Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hasty-footed time
For parting us,-O, and is all forgot?

All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,

Have with our neelds created both one flower,
Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
Both warbling of one song, both in one key;
As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds,
* Needles.

12

Quick, ready.

Had been incorporate. So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted;
But yet a union in partition,

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.

And will you rend our ancient love asunder? 7-iii. 2.

665.

Unfaithful friendship.

Hath he so long held out with me untired,
And stops he now for breath?

24-iv. 2.

How smooth and even they do bear themselves!

As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,

Crowned with faith and constant loyalty. 20-ii. 2.

He's loved of the distracted multitude,

Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;
And, where 't is so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,
But never the offence.

Authority bears a credent bulk,

That no particular scandal once can touch,

But it confounds the breather.

36-iv. 3.

5-iv. 4.

Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness;
Or whether that the body public be

A horse, whereon the governor doth ride,

Who, newly in the seat, that it may know

He can command, lets it straight feel the spur:
Whether the tyranny be in his place,

Or in his eminence that fills it up,

I stagger in.

5-i. 3.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
And the creature run from the cur?

There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.

34-iv. 6.

28-iii. 1.

Authority bears a credent bulk,

That no particular scandal once can touch,
But it confounds the breather.

673.

Honours unjustly distributed.

O, that estates, degrees, and offices,

5-iv. 4.

Were not deriv'd corruptly! and that clear honour
Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer!
How many then should cover, that stand bare?
How many be commanded, that command?
How much low peasantry would then be glean'd
From the true seed of honour? and how much honour
Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times,
To be new varnish'd?

Not a man, for being simply man,

9-ii. 9.

Hath any honour; but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident as oft as merit;

Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,
The love that lean'd on them, as slippery too,

Do one pluck down another, and together

Die in the fall.

675.

But 't is not so with me. 26-iii. 3.

The path of honour straight.

Take the instant way;

For honour travels in a strait so narrow,

Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path;
For emulation hath a thousand sons,

That one by one pursue: If you give way,
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,
Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by,
And leave you hindmost ;-

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Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank,
Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,
O'er-run and trampled on.

26-iii. 3.

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs,
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring time,
The endeavour of this present breath may buy

That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge.

To you

This honourable bounty shall belong:
Go to the Douglas, and deliver him

Up to his pleasure, ransomeless, and free:
His valour, shewn upon our crests to-day,

8-i. 1.

Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.

18-v. 2.

Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
His honour, and the greatness of his name,

He shall flourish, our children's children

Shall see this, and bless heaveny.

679.

Power, its authority.

25-v. 4.

Those he commands, move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

15-v. 2.

What his high hatred would effect, wants not
A minister in his power: You know his nature,
That he's revengeful; and I know, his sword
Hath a sharp edge: it 's long, and, it may be said,

"I have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth."-2 Sam. vii. 10.

It reaches far; and where 't will not extend,
Thither he darts it.

681.

High merits may be obscured.

So our virtues

Livez in the interpretation of the time,
And power in itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a cheer",

T' extol what it hath done.

25-i. 1.

One fire drives out one fire, one nail, one nail;

Rights by rights suffer, strengths by strengths do

682.

fail.

Extremity, the trier of men.

You were used to say

28-iv. 7.

That common chances common men could bear;
That, when the sea was calm, all boats alike
Shew'd mastership in floating: fortune's blows,
When most struck home, being gentle-minded, craves
A noble cunning.

The force of his own merit makes his way
A gift that heaven gives for hima.

28-iv. 1.

25-i. 1,

Fling away ambition;

26-iv. 5.

By that sin fell the angels; how can man then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by 'te?

25-iii. 2.

These alterations are made on the authority of the MS. correction of the edition of 1632.

"If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth."-1 Peter iv. 11.

"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time."-1 Peter v. 6.

C 66 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low."-Isa. ii. 17.