That tears fhall drown the wind.-I have no fpur Vaulting Ambition, whic o'erleaps itself, Macbeth, A. 1. Sc. 7. Let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and fleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That thake us nightly: Better be with the dead, In reftlefs ecftafy. PHILOSOPHY. Ibid. A. 3. Sc. 2. I'll give thee armour to bear off that word, To comfort thee, though thou art banish'd. Romeo and Juliet, A. 3. Sc. 5 PICTURE. Admirable! How this grace Speaks his own ftanding! What a mental power I'll fay of it, It tutors nature: Artificial ftrife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Timon of Athens, A. 1. Sè. 1;. PITY: For love of all the Gods, Let's leave the hermit's pity with our mothers; PLAYS Troilus and Creffida, A: 5: Sc. 6. A.N D PLAY. E R.S.. Good, my Lord, will you fee the players well bestowed? Do you hear? let them be well used; for they are the abftract and brief chronicles of the times: after your death, you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live.. Hamlet, A. 2. Sc. 2. I have heard t guilty creatures, fitting at a play, e by the very cunning of the fcene ftruck fo to the foul, that presently y have proclaim'd their malefactions; murder, though it have no tongue, will peak h most miraculous organ. Hamlet, A. 2. Sc. 2. peak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, pingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of players do, I had as lief the town-trier spoke my lines. do not faw the air too much with your hands, thus: but all gently; for in the very torrent, tempeft, and (as I -ht fay) whirlwind of your paffion, you must acquire and et a temperance, that may give it fmoothness. O! it nds me to the foul, to hear a robuftious periwig-pated ow tear a paffion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears he groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of hing, but inexplicable dumb fhews and noife; I would e fuch a fellow whipt for over-doing Termagant; it -herods Herod: pray you avoid it. Be not too tame neither; but let your own difcretion be ur tutor: fait the action to the word; the word to the ion; with this fpecial obfervance, that you overstep not modefty of nature: for any thing fo overdone, is from purpose of playing, whofe end, both at the first and now, s and is, to held as 'twere the mirror up to Nature; to w Virtue her own feature; Scorn her own image; and very age and body of the Time, his form and preffure. ow, this over done or come tardy off, though it may make unfkilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; e cenfure of which one muft, in your allowance, o'erweigh whole theatre of others. O! there be players, that I have en play-and heard others praise, and that highly, not to eak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Chrifns, nor the gait of Chriftians, Pagans, nor men, have fo utted and bellowed, that I have thought fome of Nature's urneymen had made men, and not made them well, they itated humanity-fo abominably. -Let thofe that play your clowns, fpeak no more than fet down for them; for there be of them, that will them-lves laugh, to fet on feme quantity of barren spectators to laugh laugh too; though, in the mean time, fome neceflary quef tion of the play be then to be confidered. That's villanous; and fhews a moft pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Hamlet, A. 3. Sc. 2. The Devil knew not what he did when he made man politic; he crofs'd himself by't; and I cannot think but, in the end, the villanies of man will fet him clear. POPULAR Timon of Athens, A. 3. Sc. 3. APPLAUSE. I love the people; But do not like to ftage me in their eyes; Meafure for Meafure, A. 1. Sc. 1. POPULAR I pr'ythee now, my fon, FAVOUR. Go to them with this bonnet in thy hand, And thus far having ftretch'd it, here be with them, That will not hold the handling; or fay to them, As thou haft power and perfon. Coriolanus, A. 3. Sc. S POPULARITY. Ourfelf POPULARITY. Obferv'd his courtship to the common people: What reverence he did throw away on flaves; With-Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends; And he our fubjects next degree in hope. King Richard II. A, 1. Sc. 4. It hath been taught us from the primal state, And the ebb'd man ne'er lov'd, till ne'er worth love, Goes to and back, lackying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1. Sc. 4, , What find I here! Fair Portia's counterfeit. What demi-god Seem they in motion? Here are fever'd lips Should funder fuch sweet friends: Here in her hairs The fubftance of my praise doth wrong this fhadow Doth Doth limp behind the substance. The Merchant of Venice, A. 3. Sc. 2. POVERTY. Art thou fo bafe and full of wretchedness, And fear'st to die? Famine is in thy cheeks; The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law; Then be not poor; but break it, and take this. Romeo and Juliet, A. 5. Sc. 1. But love firft learned in a lady's eyes, Still climbing trees in the Hefperides? Subtle as Sphinx! as fweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, ftrung with his hair: And when Love fpeaks, the voice of all the gods Love's Labour Loft, A. 3. Sc. 2. PRAYER. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wife powers De Deny |