58

I espy

Virtue with valour couched in thine eye.

59

While others fish with craft for great opinion,
I with great truth catch mere simplicity;"

17-i. 3.

Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
Fear not my truth; the moral of my wit
Is-plain, and true,—there's all the reach of it.

60

An honest man he is, and hates the slime
That sticks on filthy deeds.

26-iv. 4.

37-v. 2.

61

I am not of that feather, to shake off
My friend when he must need me."

27-i. 1.

62.

As

my

hand has open'd bounty to you,

My heart dropp'd love, my power rain'd honour.

63

25-iii. 2.

What I did, I did in honour,

Led by the impartial conduct of my soul;

And never shall you see, that I will beg
A ragged and forestall'd remission."

64

What thou would'st highly,

19-v. 2.

That would'st thou holily.

65.

15-i. 5.

I have ever loved the life removed ;*

And held in idle price to haunt assemblies,

Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery, keeps."

5-i. 4.

"While others, by their art, gain high estimation, I, by honesty, obtain a plain simple approbation.

▾ Cannot but want my assistance.

"If he will grant me pardon unasked, so---if not, I will not con descend to solicit it. Showy dress resides.

* Retired.

66

What a beggar his heart is,

Being of no power to make his wishes good;
His promises fly so beyond his state,

That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes

For every word.

67

27-i. 2.

Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly
Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle,
He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading:
Lofty, and sour, to them that loved him not;

But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.

68

25-iv. 2.

That art most rich, being poor;

Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised!

69

34-i. 1.

I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.

70

29-iii. 2.

I was created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear: my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face: thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better; and therefore tell me, will you have me?

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.

8-v. 2.

L

73

29-iii. 1.

I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality,
There is no fellow in the firmament.

Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens,

That one day bloom'd, and fruitful were the next.

21—i. 6.

76

If I lose mine honour,

3-iii. 4.

I lose myself.

77

'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;

Mine honour, it.

30-ii. 7.

78

'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;

He rises on the toe: that spirit of his

In aspiration lifts him from the earth.

26-iv. 5.

79

I know not,

What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;
But in my bosom shall she never come,

To make my heart her vassal.

80

30-ii. 6.

You shall find, his vanities fore-spent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots,
That shall first spring, and be most delicate.

" Wasted, exhausted.

20-ii. 4.

a What justness, beauty, and dignity, in a base comparison! It is recorded of the expeller of the Tarquins, that he presented emblematically, at Delphos, a solid rod of gold enclosed in a rough wooden staff,

81

A man by his own alms empoison'd,

And with his charity slain.

82

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

83

His large fortune,

Upon his good and gracious nature hanging,

28-v. 5.

36-i. 2.

Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle,

Thou hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time. 26-iv. 5.

86

Because I cannot flatter, and speak fair,

Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,

I must be held a rancorous enemy.

Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm,
But thus his simple truth must be abused
By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?

87

24-i. 3.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's

good, content with

my

harm.

88

10-iii. 2.

I care not, (so much I am happy

Above a number,) if my actions

Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw them,
Envy and base opinion set against them,

I know my life so even.

25-iii. 1.

89

Thou art a fellow of a good respect;

Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it.

Under the tide: but now I breathe again
Aloft the flood; and can give audience
To any tongue, speak it of what it will.

92

I am fallen out with my more headier will,
To take the indisposed and sickly fit

31-ii. 4.

16-iv. 2.

For the sound man.

34-ii. 4.

93

Mine honour is my life;

both grow in one;

Take honour from me, and my life is done.

94

17-i. I.

We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind,
That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff,
And good from bad find no partition.

95

For life, I prize it,

19-iv. 1.

As I weigh grief, which I would spare. for honour, 'Tis a derivative from me to mine,

And only that I stand for.

с

96

13-iii. 2.

The breath no sooner left his father's body,
But that his wildness, mortified in him,
Seem'd to die too: yea, at that very moment,
Consideration like an angel came,

b Stunned, confounded.

"The glory of a man, is from the honour of his father.". Ecclus. iii. 11.