Deny us, for our good. So find we profit By lofing of our prayers. Ant. and Cleop. A. 2. Sc. 1. PRAYERS. -When maidens fue, Men give like gods; but, when they weep and kneel, All their petitions are as truly theirs, As they themselves would owe them. Meafure for Measure, A. 1. Sc. 4: -Lord Angelo is precife; Stands at a guard with envy; fcarce confeffes Ibid. A. 1. Sc. 3 Governs Lord Angelo: a man whose blood Ibid. A. 1. Sc. 4. PRECEDENT. It must not be; there is no power in Venice. "Twill be recorded. for a precedent; And many an error, by the fame example, The Merchant of Venice, A. 4. Sc. 1. PREFERMENT. 'Tis the curfe of fervice; Preferment goes by letter and affection, Not by the old gradation, where each fecond Stood heir to the firft. Othello, A. 1. Sc. He that's proud, eats up himself. Pride is his own glafs, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praifes itself but in the deed, devours the deed i'the praise. Troil, and Creff. A. 2. Sc. 3. PRIS O N. I have been ftudying how to compare : Thoughts tending to content, flatter themselves, King Richard II. A. 5. Sc. 10. PRODIGIES. -Give me leave birth To tell you once again, that at my Were Were ftrangely clam'rous in the frighted fields. I am not in the roll of common men. Henry IV. Part I. A. 3. Sc. 1. PRODIGIES RIDICULED. -the earth fhook to fee the heav'ns on fire, And not in fear of your nativity. " Within her womb; which, for enlargement ftriving, One of my fex; no woman's face remember, (The jewel in my dower) I would not wish Befides yourself, to like of. Ibid. The Tempest, A. 3. Sc. 1. O heav'n! O earth! bear witnefs to this found, And crown what I profefs with kind event, If I fpeak true; if hollowly, invert What beft is boded me to mifchief! I PROGNOSTICS O F WAR. The bay-trees in our country all are wither'd, Ibid. Thé The one, in fear to lose what they enjoy ; King Richard II. A. 2. Sc. 2. PROMISE S. opens Promifing is the very air of the time; it the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever the duller for his act and but in the plainer and fimpler kind of people, the deed of faying is quite out of use. To promife, is moft courtly and fashionable. Performance is a kind of will, or teftament, which argues a great ficknefs in his judgment that makes it. Timan of Athens, A. 5. Sc. 3 PROSPERITY. Profperity's the very bond of love, Whofe fresh complexion, and whofe heart together, Affliction alters. The Winter's Tale, A. 4. Sc. 3. PROSTITUTE. 'Tis the ftrumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguil'd by one. Othello, A. 4. Sc. I. PROT ESTATION. were I crown'd the most imperial monarch, Commend them, and condemn them, to her service, The Winter's Tale, A. 4. Sc. 3. PROVIDENCE. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Hamlet, A. 1. Sc. 5. Rafhly And prais'd be rafhness for it.-Let us know Our indiscretion fometime ferves us well, Wien our deep plots do fail : and that. should teach us There There is a divinity that fhapes our ends, row. Ibid. A. 5. Sc. 2. -There is a special providence in the fall of a fparIf it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes ? Ibid. A. 5. LOVE. Sc. 2. True fwains in love, fhall in the world to come Troilus and Creffida, A. 3. Sc. a. If I be falfe, or fwerve a hair from truth ;- And mighty states characterlefs are grated To dufty nothing; yet let memory, From falfe to falle, among falfe maids in love, Upbraid my falfehood! When they have faid-as falfe As air, as water, wind or fandy earth, As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, Yea, let them fay, to ftick the heart of falsehood, As falfe as Crefid. PUNCTUALITY. I'll give thrice fo much land To any well-deferving friend; But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Ibid. Henry IV. Part I. A. PUNISH. |