MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. PEACE. A Archbishop of York. PEACE is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser. 2nd part King Henry IV. Act iv. Scene 2. 66 BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS, ETC." K. Edward IV. I every day expect an embassage Gloster. Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen; And, princely peers, a happy time of day! K. Edward. Happy indeed, as we have spent the day: Brother, we have done deeds of charity, Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate. King Richard III. Act ii. Scene 1. DEATH'S SYMPTOMS. Prince Henry. Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts, Leaves them insensible; and his siege is now Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds Which, in their throng and press to that last hold, King John. Act v. Scene 7. A CRISIS IN PAIN AND EVIL. Pandulph. Before the curing of a strong disease, On their departure most of all show * evil. Ibid. Act iii, Scene 4. THE JUSTICE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN. King. In the corrupted currents of this world, Hamlet. Act iii. Scene 3. * Seem. PRAYER SHOULD COME FROM THE HEART. King. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.* Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers By losing of our prayers. Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 1. EVERY THING HAS ITS USE AND ABUSE. Friar Laurence. Oh, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities; Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Scene 3. * "This people worship me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." Polonius. WORLDLY MAXIMS. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought its act. Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. * Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; Hamlet. Act i. Scene 3. DOING EVIL THAT GOOD MAY COME. York. But by bad courses, may be understood That their events can never fall out good. King Richard II. Act ii. Scene 1. JUDGING BY THE EVENT. Troilus. We may not think the justness of each act Such and no other than event doth form it. Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Scene 2. * Opinion. Poet. When we for recompense have prais'd the vile, It stains the glory in that happy verse Which aptly sings the good. Timon of Athens. Act i. Scene 1. 66 LET WELL ALONE." Pembroke. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness: And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse; As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. King John. Act iv. Scene 2. Duke of Albany. Striving to better, oft we mar what's |