To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.-AGR. II., 2.

'Tis a studied, not a present thought, by duty ruminated.-AGR. II., 2.

Thy lustre thickens, when he shines by.-SOOTH. II., 3.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.-CLEO. II., 5.

The band that seems to tie their friendship together, will be the very strangler of their amity.-ENO. II., 6.

To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.-1 SERV. II., 7.

'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour; mine honour, it.-POм. II., 7.

They are his shards, and he their beetle.-ENO. III., 2.

The April's in her eyes: It is love's spring, and these the showers to bring it on.-ANT. III., 2.

Thou knew'st too well, my heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings, and thou should'st tow me after: O'er my spirit thy full supremacy thou knew'st.ANT. III., 9.

'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp, than with an old one dying.-ENO. III., 11.

P

To be furious, is, to be frighted out of fear: and in that mood, the dove will peck the estridge.-ENO. III., 11.

The soul and body rive not more in parting, than greatness going off.-CHAR. IV., 11.

The odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon.-CLEO. IV., 13.

The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack.—Cæs. V., 1.

The business of this man looks out of him.-CES. V., 1.

W

Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death, I hear him as he flatter'd.-ANT. I., 2.

What our contempts do often hurl from us, we wish it ours again.-Ant. I., 2.

When good will is show'd, though it come too short, the actor may plead pardon.-CLEO. II., 5.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, shall never find it more.-MEN. II., 7.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, if that the former dare but what it can, no chance may shake it. -THYR. III., 11.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.-ENO. III., 11.

Wishers were ever fools.-CLEO. IV.,

13.

We could not stall together in the whole world.— CES. V., 1.

Y

You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow.-Cæs. I., 4.

You praise youself by laying defects of judgment to me.-CES. II., 2.

Love's Labour's Lost.

A

At Christmas I no more desire a rose, than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows; but like of each things, that in season grows.-BIRON, Act I., Scene 1.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it.-Ros. V., 2.

B

Brave conquerors!-for so you are, that war against your own affections, and the huge army of the world's desires.-KING, I., 1.

Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.-PRIN. II., 1.

D

Dainty bits make rich the ribs, but bank'rout quite the wits.-LONG. I., 1.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.— BIRON, IV., 3.

F

Fair payment for foul words is more than due.PRIN. IV., 1.

Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, as foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote.-MAR. V., 2.

H

He hath wit to make an ill shape good, and shape to win grace though he had no wit.-KATH. II., 1.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.-HOL. V., 1.

J

Justice always whirls in equal measure.-BIRON, IV.,

3.

L

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, live register'd upon our brazen tombs, and then grace us in

the disgrace of death; when, spite of cormorant devouring time, the endeavour of this present breath may buy that honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, and make us heirs of all eternity.-KING, I., 1.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, and where we are, our learning likewise is.-BIRON, IV., 3.

N

Nothing becomes him ill, that he would well.-MAR. II., 1.

None offend, where all alike do dote.-DUM. IV., 3.

S

Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn.-BIRON, IV., 3.

T

Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame.BIRON, I., 1.

The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss, (if virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,) is a sharp wit match'd with too blunt a will.-MAR. II., 1.

To things of sale a seller's praise belongs.-DIRON, IV., 3.

There's no such sport, as sport by sport o'erthrown. -PRIN. V., 2.