The foul of Nero enter this firm bofom.: Let me be cruel, but not unnatural;
I will fpeak daggers to her, but ufe none..
NIGHT IN A CAMP.
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army ftilly founds;
That the fixt fentinels almoft receive
The fecret whifpers of each other's watch. Fire anfwers fire; and through their paly flames. Each battle fees the other's umber'd, face.. Steed threatens fteed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents, The armourers accomplishing the knights, With bufy hammers clofing rivets up,. Give dreadful note of preparation.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll; And (the third hour of drowfy morning nam'd); Proud of their numbers and fecure in foul,. The confident and over-lufty French Do the low-rated English play at dice; And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night,. Who, like a foul and ugly witch, does limp
So tedioufly away. The poor condemned English. Like facrifices, by their watchful fires
Sit patiently, and inly ruminate
The morning's danger: and their gefture fad,, Invest in lank-lean cheeks and war-worn coats,,, Prefented them unto the gazing moon
s. Who now beholds
The royal captain of this ruin'd band
Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,, Let him cry, Praise and glory on his head!
For forth he goes and vifits all his hoft,
Bids them good-morrow. with a modeft fimile,
And calls them brothers, friends, and countrymen.. Upon his royal face there is no note,, How dread an army hath enrounded him; Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour Unto the weary and all-watched night, But freshly looks and over-bears attaint,
With chearful femblance and fweet majefty;
That ev'ry wretch, pining and pale before,ligi oT Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks.
A largefs univerfal, like the fun, Sis buni ameo rod ́T His lib'ral eye doth give to ev'ry one, Thawing cold fear.
The hearts of Princes kifs obedience,
So much they love it: but to ftubborn fpirits They fwell and grow as terrible as ftorms.
King Henry VIII. A. 3. Sc. L.
My wife comes foremoft; then the honour'd mould Wherein this trunk was fram'd, and in her hand The grand-child to her blood. But out, affection ! All bond and privilege of nature break! Let it be virtuous, to be obftinate.
doidW What is that curt' fie worth? or thofe dove's eyes, ¿A Which can make Gods forfworn? I melt, and am not Of stronger earth than others, My mother bows, As if Olympus to a mole hill fhould • red teds IET In fupplication nod; and my young boy oog adt bllo¶ Hath an afpect of interceffion, which Mgreb bbim oT Great nature cries,Deny not. Let the Volfcians Plough Rome, and harrow Italy; I'll never Be fuch a gofling to obey inftinct; but ftand As if a man were author of himself, And knew no other kin.
a gabinida ap Coriolanus, A. 5. Sc. 3.
The owl fhriek'd at thy birth, an e
evil fign: atdwin,abriolI nie piset vi The night-crow cry'd, a boding lucklefs tune: Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempeft fhook down trees: The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top 101519T And chattering pyes in difmal difcord fung: Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, assaill And yet brought forth lefs than a mother's hope, all To wit, an indigested deform'd lump, Estoy baA Not like the fruit of fuch a goodly tree.dg poy Teeth hadst thou in th head when thou wait born.
225 To fignify, thou cam'ft to bite the world ibis laiti And, if the reft be true which I have heard, un blods? Thou cam'st into the world with thy legs forward. 1 & Henry VI. Part III. A. 5. Sc. 7.
OPHELIA DROWNIN G.
There is a willow grows aflant a brook, That fhews his hoar leaves in the glaffy fiream: There with h fantastic garlands did the come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daifies, and long purples, (That liberal fhepherds give a groffer name; But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them ;) There on the pendant boughs, her coronet weeds Clamb'ring to hang, an envious fliver broke When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook: her cloaths fpread wide, And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time the chaunted fnatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own diftrefs;
Or like a creature native, and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be, "Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.
There is nothing, either good or bad,
But thinking makes it fo.
Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen, what I fhould fay, My tears gain-fay; for every word I fpeak,
Ye fee, I drink the the water of my eye:
Therefore no more but this: Henry, your Sov'reign,
Is pris'ner to the foe, his ftate ufurp'd,
His realm a flaughter-house, his subjects flain, His ftatutes cancell'd, and his treafure spent ; And yonder is the wolf that makes this fpoil. You fight in juftice; then, in God's name, Lords, Be valiant, and give fignal to the battle.
King Henry VL. Part III. A. 5. Sc. 6.
I fhall lack voice; the deeds of CoriolanuS Should not be utter'd feebly. It is held, That valour is the chiefeft virtue, and panning. Moft dignifies the haver; if it be, onorib-bull 10 1 The man, I fpeak of, cannot in the world oudersH Be fingly counter-pois'd. At fixteen years, ou n'v When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought Beyond the mark of others: our then dictator, Whom with all praife I point at, faw him fight,or zitt When with his Amazonian chin he drove doğuşbliw A The briftled lips before him: he beftridas? a? An o'erpreft Roman, and i'th' conful's s view tow to f Slew three oppofers: Tarquin's felf he met, vivuV! And ftruck him on his In that day's feats, bn When he might act the in the fcene, en'nsɔ i He prov'd th' best i' th' field, and for his meed M Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age Man-enter'd thus, he waxed like a fea;
And, in the brunt of feventeen battles fince, He lurcht all fwords o'th' garland. For this laft, Before and in Corioli, let me fay,
Jim Boy vlqsh Abelgasm A I cannot fpeak him home; he stopt the flyers, lo And by his rare example made the coward
Turn terror into sport. As waves before), 1817, 9419 2Á A veffel under fail, fo men obey'd, io voy mwil And fell below his ftern. His fword, death's ftamp,T Try on berus M Where it did mark, it took from face to foo
He was a thing of blood, whofe every motion Was tim'd with dying cries. Alone he enter'd The mortal gate o'th' city, which he painted on bibl With fhunlefs deftiny; aidlefs came off,puidung, foM And with a fudden re-enforcement ftruck blow I woll Corioli, like a planet. Nor all's thisgenoods dout For by and by the din of war gan pierced T His ready fenfe, when ftraight his doubled fpirit shiM Requicken'd what in flesh was fatigate, po nixit di A And to the battle came he; where he did
Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if
Twere a perpetual spoil; and 'till we call'did 970
Both field and city ours, he never food To eafe his breaft with panting.co 100
PAINTING.D od 20a bluod?
The painting is almoft the natural man;
For fince difhonour trafficks with man's nature, hom He is but outfide; pencil'd figures are
Ev'n fuch as they give out.
Timon of Athens, A. 1. Sc. 2.
'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou hence; A wilderness is populous enough,
So Suffolk had thy heav'nly company: For where thou art, there is the world itself, With ev'ry fev❜ral pleasure in the world; And where thou art not, defolation.
1 can no more-- -Live thou to joy thy life; Myfelf no joy in aught but that thou liv'ft.
King Henry VI. Part II. A. 3. Sc. 8. Tend me to-night:
May be, it is the period of your duty; Haply you shall not fee me more; or if,
A mangled fhadow. It may chance, to-morrows. I You'll ferve another mafter. I look on you,
As one that takes his leave. Mine honeft friends,T I turn you not away; but, like a mafter Married to your good service, ftay till death: Tend me to-night two hours, I afk no more, And the Gods hield you for't!
Antony and Cleopatra, A. 4. Sc. z. I did not take my leave of him, but had og from adT Moft pretty things to fay: ere I could tell him to dịp th How I would think on him, at certain hours,
Such thoughts, and fuch; or, I could make him fwear, The fhe's of Italy fhould not betray body
Mine intereft, and his honour; or have charg'd him, At the fixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,. T' encounter me with orifons; for then
I am in heaven for him; or ere I could
Give him that parting kifs, which I had fet
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father; do And, like the tyrannous breathing of the North,LOT Shakes all our buds from growing. Cymbeline, A. 1. Sc. 5.
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