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1255. Alack! when once our grace we have forgot,

Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not. (M. M. iv. 4.)
A mindless slave,

Or else a hovering temporiser; that

Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both. (W. T. i. 2.)

1258. ... What the repining enemy commends,

That breath fame blows; that praise, sole pure, transcends.

(Tr. Cr. i. 3.)

1259. Opinion of men of judgment, &c. (Cor. iii. 1, 140-160.)

(Comp. Ham. iv. 3, 4, 5.)

1262. He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not look upon his like again. (Ham. i. 2; ib. iii. 4, 61–63.)
Each your doing,

So singular in this particular,

Crowns what you are doing in the present deed. (W. T. iv. 3.)

1265. Things best in age, adversity, &c.

1268. Old things new.

(Lucrece, 1. 141-147; and comp. No. 1362.) (Sonn. 108.)

1271. There should be made an inventory of the possessions of man, wherein should be set down and briefly enumerated all the goods and possessions (whether derived from the fruits and proceeds of nature or of art) which men now hold and enjoy; which calendar will be more workmanlike and more serviceable too, if you add to it a list of those things which are in common opinion reputed impossible in every kind. . . . It would greatly tend to abridge the work of invention if Polychrests of this kind were set down in a proper catalogue.

(De Augmentis, iii. 5.)

(For inventories, see 2 Hen. IV. ii. 2, 14-18; Tw. N. i. 5, 241247; Cymb. ii. 2, 24-30; Hen. VIII. iii. 2, 120-127, 451.)

1272.

1273.

You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory
Of your best graces in your mind.

(Hen. VIII. iii. 2, 137, 138.)

The leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an
inventory to particularise their abundance. (Cor. i. 1.)
Though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the
arithmetic of memory. (Ham. v. 2.)

My soul aches
To know, when two authorities are up,
Neither supreme, how soon confusion
May enter 'twixt the gap of both, and take
The one by the other. (Cor. iii. 1.)

Gon. In his own grace he doth exalt himself
More than in your addition.

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By me invested he compeers the best.

Alb. That were the most if he should husband you.

This would have seemed a period

To such as love not sorrow; but another,

To amplify too much, would make much more
And top extremity.

(Ib.)

Let your reason serve
To make the truth appear where it seems hid,

And hide the false seems true. (M. M. v. 1.)

(All) give to dust that is a little gilt,

More land than guilt o'erdusted.

(Lear, v. 3.)

The present eye praises the present object. (Tr. Cr. iii. 3.)

1276. Be thou my witness that against my will,

As Pompey was, I am compell'd to set

Upon one battle all our liberties. (Jul. Cæs. v. 1.)

Terms of base compulsion. (Tr. Cr. ii. 3, 153.)

He'll do as he is made to do. (Cymb. v. 1.)

(See 1 Hen. IV. ii. 4, 245–250; Cor. iii 1, 121–128; Ham. i. 2, 123. Comp. No. 740.)

1279a. Too much, too little is an evil. (Comp. Lucrece, 1. 134-140.) 1287. Disordered imaginations multiplied by fears. (Lucrece, 971-974.) 1288. We must endeavour for defence;

For courage mounteth with occasion. (John, ii. 1.)

I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;

And to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed. (1 Hen. IV. iv. 4.)

1289-1292.

O thoughts of men accurst,

Past, and to come seems best; things present, worst.

(See 2 Hen. IV. i. 3, and Tr. Cr. iii. 3, 173–180.)

Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,

Anticipating time with starting courage. (Tr. Cr. iv. 5.) 1298. What our enemies wish for us, &c. (All's Well, iv. 3, 62.) 1308. Excuses make the fault worse. (Lucrece, 1. 267, 1613, 1614.) 1309. What needeth then apologies be made

To set forth that which is so singular. (Ib. 1. 31, 32.) 1325. That on account of which labours are incurred, good.

1333.

(Ham. iv. 4, 43–56.)

Were I crowned the most imperial monarch,
Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth
That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge
More than was ever man's, I would not prize them
Without her love. (W. T. iv. 3.)

Life, honour, name, and all that made me happy.

Eminence, wealth, sovereignty,

(Hen. VIII. ii. 1, 116.)

Which, sooth to say, are blessings. (Ib. ii. 3.)

1340. Observe his inclination. (Ham. ii. 1, 71.)

(We) here give up ourselves in the full bent. . . .
To be commanded. (Tb. ii. 2, 30.)

Is it your own inclining? (Ib. 1. 78; see M. Ado, ii. 3, 225.)

1341. If thou be'st capable of things serious.

(Autolycus contemptuously to the shepherd.-W. T. iv. 3.)

1370. Say that. (Edward III. ii. 1, 217.)

1378. The rather for I think I know your business. (All's W. iii, 5.)

1382. Come we to full points here, and are etceteras nothing?

(2 Hen. IV. ii. 4.)

The magnanimous and most illustrious six or seven times honoured general of the Grecian army, Agamemnon, etcetera.

With this. (Ven. Ad. 1. 25, 1121.)

(Tr. Cr. iii. 3.)

1397. Before I know myself, seek not to know me. (Ven. Ad. 1. 525.)

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1423.

Therefore be merry, Cassio,

For thy solicitor will rather die

Than give thy cause away. (Oth. iii. 1.)

For when the heart's attorney once is mute,

The client breaks, as desperate in his suit. (Ven. Ad. 1. 335.)

I'll undertake to be . . . her advocate to the loudest.

Why should calamity be full of words?

Windy attorneys to their client woes.

(W. T. ii. 2.)

(R. III. iv. 4; Edward III. ii. 1, 385.)

1425. A disease that hath certain traces.

I do spy some marks of love in her. (M. Ado, ii. 3.)

Signs of love. (L. L. L. i. 2, 1, 57–64.)

1438. Foul sin gathering head shall break into corruption. (R. II. v. 1.)

1441. Every glory that inclines to sin

The same is treble by the opposite.

These contraries such unity do hold.

(Edward III. ii. 2.)

(Lucrece, 1. 1558.)

1443. O hard-believing love! how strange it seems Not to believe, and yet too credulous!

Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes !

Despair and hope make thee ridiculous. (Ven. Ad. 985.)

A settled valour, not tainted with extremes. (Tw. N. Kins. iv. 2.)

1448. For marks descried in man's nativity

Are nature's faults; not their own infamy. (Lucrece.)

1451. The nature of everything is best considered in the seeds. (Compare Win. T. i. 2, 153–160.)

1458. My love is as a fever, longing still

For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain, sickly appetite to please.

My reason, the physician to my love,

Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,

Hath left me. (Sonn. cxlvii.; ib. cxviii. and cxl. 1. 7, 8.)

I have a woman's longing,

An appetite that I am sick withal.

(Tr. Cr. iii. 3; Ham. iv. 1, 20-23.)

I must no more believe thee in this point.
Than I will trust a sickly appetite

That loathes even as it longs. (Tw. N. K. i. 3.)

1459. Good in things evil. (Lucrece, 1. 528-532.)

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1468. Thou usurer, that putt'st forth all to use,

1472.

1474.

And sue a friend, came debtor for my sake;

So him I lose through my unkind abuse. (Sonn. cxxxiv.)

Cam. They that went on crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to see him a man.

Arch. Would they else be content to die?

Cam. Yes, if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.

(W. T. i. 1 ; ib. iii. 2, 90-110; Per. i. 1, 48; Rom. Jul. v. 1, 68.) Good Camillo,

Your chang'd complexions are to me a mirror

Which shows me mine chang'd to. (W. T. i. 2.)

1478. Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want Of what I was i' the morning. (Ant. Cl. ii. 2.)

1481. Take people as they are.

(Mer. Ven. iii. 2, 149-171; Hen. V. v. 2, 151-170; Ham. i. 2, 87.)

1496, 1590. Red face. (1 Hen. IV. ii. 4, 325–327.)

1497. The mind losing its balance from joys following too thick upon one another. (W. T. v. 2, 43-58.)

Compare of woes. One woe doth tread upon another's heel.

(Ham. iv. 7; ib. iv. 5, 74-95.)

Glo. The king is mad; how stiff is my vile sense,

That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling

Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract;

So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,

And woes by strong imaginations lose

The knowledge of themselves. (Lear, iv. 6, and similar passages.)

1504. Youth, the more it is wasted, the faster it wears.

(1 Hen. IV. ii. 4.)

1507. That may be, must be. . . . What must be, shall be.

(Rom. Jul. iv. 1.)

1508, 1466. (Love) should not fear where it shonld most mistrust.

1512. (We'll) take upon us the mystery of things

As if we were God's spies. (Lear, v. 3.)
Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth,
As I can of those mysteries which heaven

(Ven. Adon, 1. 1154.)

Will not have earth to know. (Cor. iv. 2.)

The gods will have perform'd their secret purposes. (W. T. v. 1.)

1516. Woman ill or well, as she pleases. (Ven. Ad. 1. 463–480.)

1521. (Love) shall be cause of war and dire events,

And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire

Subject and servile to all discontents,

As dry combustious matter is to fire. (Ven. Ad. 1. 1159.)

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