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I am disgraced, impeach'd, and baffled here;
Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.

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I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad, when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep, when I am drowsy, and tend to no man's business; laugh, when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.

4-i. 3.

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thought;

Faster than spring-time showers, comes thought on

And not a thought, but thinks on dignity.

22-iii. 1.

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There is between my will and all offences

A guard of patience.

26-v. 2.

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I'll play the orator,

Were for myself.

24-iii, 5.

As if the golden fee, for which I plead,

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I have sounded the very base string of humility.

18-ii. 4.

15-i. 4.

In his commendations I am fed;

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It is a banquet to me.

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His real habitude gave life and grace
To appertainings. and to ornament,

Accomplish'd in himself, not in his case:
All aids themselves made fairer by their place;
Came for additions, yet their purposed trim
Pieced not his grace, but were all graced by him.
So on the tip of his subduing tongue

All kind of arguments, and question deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep:
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will;
That he did in the general bosom reign

Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted.

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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
Some, that will evermore peep through their eyes,
And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper;
And other of such vinegar aspéct,

That they'll not shew their teeth in way of smile,
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.

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There are a sort of men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
And do a wilful stillness" entertain,
With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit;
As who should say, I am Sir Oracle,
And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

Obstinate silence.

9-i. 1.

I do know of these,

That therefore only are reputed wise,
For saying nothing; who, I am very sure,

If they should speak, would almost damn those ears, Which, hearing them, would call their brothers, fools.

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9-i. l.

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool;
And, to do that well, craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time;

And, like the haggard," check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice,
As full of labour as a wise man's art;

For folly, that he wisely shews, is fit;

But wise men, folly fallen,* quite taint their wit.

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I do know him valiant,

And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder,

And quickly will return an injury.

183

4-iii. 1.

20-iv. 7.

With a proud heart he wore

His humble weeds.

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This milky gentleness, and course of yours,

28-ii. 3.

Though I condemn it not, yet, under pardon,

You are much more attask'd' for want of wisdom,
Than praised for harmful mildness.

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34-i. 4.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

186

You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brainsickly of things.

187

34-i. 4.

15-ii. 2.

His humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his

"A hawk not well trained.

* i. e. Wise men fallen into folly.

Liable to reprehension.

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tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.2

Being scarce made up,

188

8-v. 1.

I mean, to man, he had not apprehension
Of roaring terrors; for the effect of judgment
Is oft the cause of fear.

31-iv. 2.

189

Your capacity

Is of that nature, that to your huge store
Wise things seem foolish, and rich things but poor.

190

8-v. 2.

A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain:
One, whom the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony.

191

8-i. 1.

He has every thing, that an honest man should not have; what an honest man should have, he has nothing.

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O, he's as tedious

As is a tired horse, a railing wife;

11-iv. 3.

Worse than a smoky house:-I had rather live
With cheese and garlic, in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom.

193

18-iii. 1.

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is po

a Effect for defect.

" Boastful.

b Dainties.

litic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects; and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me, is a most humorous sadness. 10-iv. 1.

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The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere you flout old ends any farther, examine your conscience. 6-i. 1.

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I know them, yea,

And what they weigh even to the utmost scruple:
Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,
That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander,
Go anticly, and shew outward hideousness,
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst,
And this is all.

196

6-v. 1.

He is every man in no man: if a throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will fence with his own shadow.

197

9-i. 2.

He'll but break a comparison or two on me; which, peradventure, not marked, or not laughed at, strikes him into melancholy. 6-ii. 1.

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O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puny tilter, that spurs his horse but on

Trifling. d Trimmed. "Flout," &c. Before you endeavour to distinguish yourself any more by antiquated allusions, examine whether you can fairly claim for your own: or, Examine, if your sarcasms touch yourself.

f Mistress.

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