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Ibid. 257
Ivid. 258 The Frog's Choice

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43 Prologue upon Prologues, to the Deuce is
in Him. Spoken by Mr. King Garrick. 349 77 Prologue to Runnamede
44 Mr. Foote's Address to the Public, after
a Prosecution against him for a Libel.
1764
45 Prologue to the Clandestine Marriage.
1766

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ELEGANT EXTRACTS.

POETICAL.

BOOK THE THIRD.

DRAMATIC, CHIEFLY FROM SHAKSPEARE.

§ 1. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

Advice.

SHAKSPEARE.

A parasitical vain Coward.

I know him a notorious liar; Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;

BE thou blest, Bertram! and succeed thy Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, steely

In manners as in shape; thy blood and virtue
Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
Share with thy birth-right. Love all; trust
a few ;

Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key; be check'd for si-
lence,

But never tax'd for speech. What Heaven
more will,

That thee may furnish, and my prayers pluck
Fall on thy head!

Too ambitious Love.

Look bleak in the cold wind: withal, full oft
That they take place, when virtue's

we see

Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Character of a noble Courtier, by an old
Cotemporary.

King. I would I had that corporal sound

ness now,

[down, As when thy father and myself in friendship
First tried our soldiership! He did look far
Into the service of the time, and was
Discipled of the bravest. He lasted long;
But on us both did haggish age steal on,
And wore us out of act. It much repairs m
To talk of your good father. In his youth
He had the wit which I can well observe
To day in our young lords; but they may jest
Till their own scorn return to them unnoted,
Ere they can hide their levity in honor:
So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness
Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,
His equal had awak'd them; and his honor,
Clock to itself, knew the true minute when
Exception bid him speak; and at that time
His tongue obey'd his hand. Who were below
He us'd as creatures of another place, [him
And bow'd his imminent top to their low
ranks,

I am undone; there is no living, none,
If Bertram be away. It were all one,
That I should love a bright particular star,
And think to wed it, he is so above me!
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere,
Th' ambition in my love thus plagues itself;
The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love. 'Twas pretty tho' a plague,
To see him every hour; to sit and draw
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
In our heart's table: heart, too capable
Of every line and trick of his sweet favor!
But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy
Must sanctify his relics.

VOL. VI. Nos. 83 & 84.

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