Things that are past are done with me. (Ant. Cl. i. 2.)
Past care is still past care.

(L. L. L. v. 2; Rom. Jul. iv. 1, 45; Cor. i. 1, 62.)

952. Pride will have a fall.

Pride will have a fall. (R. II. v. 5.)

My pride fell with my fortune. (As Y. L. i. 2.)

He falls in the height of all his pride. (R. III. v. 2.)

By that sin fell the angels. (H. VIII. i. 2, and iii. 2.)
Fall and blast her pride. (Lear, ii. 4.)

953. Somewhat is better than nothing.

Vio. I warrant thou art a merry fellow, and carest for nothing. Clo. I do care for something; but I do not care for you: if that be to care for nothing, sir. (Tw. N. iii. 1.)

For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold

That nothing me, a something sweet to thee. (Son. cxxxvi.) We do neglect

The thing we have: and all for want of wit

Make something nothing by augmenting it. (Lucrece.)

(See 2 H. VI. iii. 1, 306.)

954. Better be envyed than pitied.

His love was . . exempt from envy, but not free from disdain. (3 Hen. VI. iii. 3.)

Buck. All good people, you that thus far have come to pity me no black envy shall make my grave. (Hen. VIII. ii. 1, 55 and 85. See Buckingham's speech and Wolsey's envy, i. 1.)

There's many a man alive that hath outliv'd

The love o' the people . . . we expire;

And not without men's pity. (Tw. N. K. v. 4.)

955. Every man after his fashen.

After his sour fashion.

(Jul. Cæs. i. 2; and see ii. 1, 220; iv. 1, 36–39, and iv. 3, 134.) Construe things after their fashion. (Ib. i. 3.)

Do it in their own fashion. (L. L. L. v. 2.)

956. He may doe much yll ere he do much woorse.

I am bent to know

By the worst means the worst.

You are young in deed. (Macb. iii. 4.)

Macb. Thou canst not say I did it. Shake not

Thy gory locks at me. . . .

Lady M. He grows worse and worse. . . .

Mach. Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse

Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:

We are yet but young in deed. (Ib.)

Bad begins and worse remains behind. (Ham. iii. 4.)
His humour

Was nothing but imitation; ay, and that

From one bad thing to worse. (Cymb. iv. 2.).

You some permit

To second ills with ills, each elder worse.

(See Wint. T. iv. 2, 87-101, 23-31. See No. 50.)

957. We be but where we were.

Duch. Weeping made you break the story off. . . .
York. Where did I leave? (R. II. v. 1.)

By the mass, I was

About to say something. Where did I leave? (Ham. ii. 1.)

958. Use maketh mastery.

Experience is by industry achieved,

And perfected by the swift course of time.

959. Love me little love me long.

(Tw. Gen. Ver. i. 3.)

Therefore, love moderately; long love doth so

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. (R. Jul. ii. 5.)

961.' They that are bound must obey.

Do we must what force will have us do. (R. II. iii. 3.)

I am tied to be obedient. (Tam. Sh. i. 1.)

See foot-note, p. 310.

Ham. Speak. I am bound to hear.

Ghost. So art thou to revenge when thou dost hear.
Ham. Now to my word.

It is adieu, remember! I have sworn.

(Ham. i. 5.)

I am tied to the stake; I must run this course. (Lear, iii. 7.) (See Jul. Cæs. iv. 1, 48.)

962. Folly it is to spurn against the pricke.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear

His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear. (Macb. iii. 5.)
The great King of kings

Hath in the tables of his law commanded

That thou shalt do no murder; and wilt thou then

Spurn at his edict? (R. III. i. 4.)

To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield. (Per. ii. 5.)

963. Better sit still than rise and fall.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.
I shall fall like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man shall see me more.

(Hen. VIII. iii. 2: Wolsey's fall.)

964. Might overcomes right.

O God that right should thus overcome might.

(2 Hen. IV. iv. 4.)

(See 2 Hen. VI. ii. 3, where the armourer and his man fight, and the armourer falls-O Peter! thou hast prevailed in right.') Force should be right. (Tr. Cr. i. 3.)

(See R. III. v. 3, 313.)

965. No smoke without fire.

As near . . . as flame to smoke. (Per. i. 1.)

Let

your close fire predominate his smoke. (Tim. Ath. iv. 3.) Such smothers broke through into greater flames.

(Proceedings against Essex.)

966. Tyme trieth troth. (Tempus arguit amicum.Eras. Ad. 104. Time is the proof of a friend.)

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,

Grapple them to thy heart.

(Ham. i. 2.)

Well, time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let time try. (Tr. Cr. iii. 3, 145–150; As Y. L. iv. 3.)

967. Make not two sorrows of one.

K. Rich. Doubly divorced! bad men, you violate
A twofold marriage 'twixt my crown and me,
And then 'twixt me and my married wife.
So two together weeping make one woe. (R. II. v. 1.)
Do not receive affliction at repetition I beseech you.

(W. T. iii. 2.)

Tell o'er your woes again, by viewing mine. (R. III. iv. 4.) (See Sonnet xxx. 1. 10-12.)

Folio 1036.

968 Thear is no good accord where every jack would be a lord.

Since every Jack became a gentleman,

There's many a gentle person made a Jack. (R. III. i. 3.)
We will not leave one lord, one gentleman,
Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon.

(2 H. VI. iv. 3.)

969. Saieing and doing are two things.

And ever may your highness yoke together.
My doing well with my well saying. (Hen. VIII. iii. 2.)
Your words and your performances are no kin together.

(Oth. iv. 2.)

Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers; be assured We came to use our hands and not our tongues. (R. III. i. 3.) (See Tw. G. Ver. ii. 1, 15; Lear, i. 1, 188–9, 240-1; Tw. N. Kins. v. 1, 114; Ham. i. 3, 27; iii. 1, 53; Cor. i. 1, 57-61; Per. ii. Gower 4, &c.)

1 Collier's MS. corrected ed. for petition.

970. Better be happy than wise.

(See No. 483.)

971. Who can hold, that will away?

(See Ant. and Cleo. i. 2 and 3, Antony's determination to be away and Cleopatra's attempt to hold him.)

Laer. I must confess my thoughts and wishes bend again toward France.

King. Have you your father's leave?

Pol. He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave . . . Upon his will I sealed my hard consent. (Ham. i. 2.)

972. Alwaies let losers have their woordes.

Then give me leave, for losers will have leave
To ease their stomachs with their bitter words.

(Tit. And. iii. 1.)

Can I give the loser leave to chide?
Far truer spoke than meant, I lose indeed. . . .
And well such losers may have leave to speak.

Words ease the heart. (R. III. iii. 1.)

(Compare R. III. iv. 4, 122–131.)

973. Warned and half armed.

(2 Hen. VI. iii. 1.)

Glad I am that your highness is so armed

To bear the tidings of calamity. (R. II. iii. 3.)

She is armed and keeps her ground in honestest defence.

(All's W. iii. 5.)

(Mer. Ven. iv. i.)

Por. You, merchant, have you anything to say?
Ant. But little; I am warned and well prepared.

(See also Lear, i. 2, 175.)

974. He that hath an ill name is half hanged. Receive such as be civil, ... for you are in an ill name.

(2 H. IV. ii. 4.)

975. Frenzy, heresy, and jealousy are three that sel

dome or never cured be.